Michel Chevalier

Michel Chevalier

Michel Chevalier (born January 13, 1806 in Limoges , † November 18, 1879 in Montpellier ) was a French economist and free trader . Chevalier was considered a Manchester liberal and Panlatinist .

Life

Chevalier attended the Collège in Limoges, then the polytechnic school in Paris and from 1825 a mining educational institute and got a job as an engineer in the Northern Department shortly before the July Revolution.

He initially devoted himself to the ideas of Henri de Saint-Simon , worked on the organizer , then headed the Globe and, like Père Enfantin, was persecuted for his propaganda. A little later, however, he was sent by the government to the United States to investigate the development of transportation.

In 1838 Chevalier became State Councilor in extraordinary service, in 1840 professor of economics at the Collège de France and in 1841 chief engineer of mining. In 1845 he was a member of the chamber in the Aveyron department , but was voted out of office again due to his liberal views of Manchester.

After the coup d'état on December 2, 1851 , he was again a state councilor in extraordinary service and in 1860 a senator.

Together with Richard Cobden and John Bright he prepared the free trade agreement between France and Great Britain of 1860. This contract also bears his name to this day: Cobden-Chevalier contract .

After the fall of the French Empire, Chevalier found himself back in the free trade opposition .

Fonts

• Des intérèts matériels en France , 1837
• Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États-Unis , 1840–42, 2 vols.
• Essais de politique industrial , 1843
• Cours d'économie politique , 1842–44 a. 1850, 3 vols.
• L'isthme de Panama, suivi d'un apercu sur l'isthme de Suez , 1844

Web links

Commons : Michel Chevalier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on Michel Chevalier in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .