Victor Riquetti

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Victor Riquetti

Victor Riquetti Marquis de Mirabeau (born October 5, 1715 in Pertuis , † July 13, 1789 in Argenteuil ) was a French economist ( physiocrat ) and writer. He was the father of the revolutionary Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau and his brother André Boniface Louis Riquetti de Mirabeau . The ancestors of the Marquis originally came from Florence, but were banished from there in 1268 and then went to Marseille.

Victor Riquetti was a follower of François Quesnay in Paris and wrote a. a. the three-volume economic work 'Philosophy rurale (ou, Économie générale et politique de l'agriculture, reduite à l'ordre immuable des loix physiques & morales, qui assurent la prospérité des empires)', published in 1763.

Like his father Jean-Antoine de Riqueti (1666-1737), Victor Riquetti served in the French army. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and the War of the Polish Succession .

Works (selection)

Economiques , 1769
  • L'ami des hommes: ou, Traité de la population (1759)
  • Théorie de l'impôt (1761, online . Republication Scientia-Verlag, 1972, ISBN 978-3511005498 )
  • Les économiques (new publication Scientia-Verlag, 1972)
  • Philosophy rurale (ou, Économie générale et politique de l'agriculture, reduite à l'ordre immuable des loix physiques & morales, qui assurent la prospérité des empires) (1763)
  • La science ou Les droits et les devoirs de l'homme (1774, republished by Scientia-Verlag, Aalen, 1970)

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Footnotes

  1. ^ A b M. W. Shelley: Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France . tape 2 . Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, London 1839, pp. 195-196 .
  2. ↑ translated for example: General and political economy of agriculture, traced back to the unshakable basis of physical and moral laws that secure the prosperity of (king) rich
  3. ↑ translated as: 'Science (or: The rights and duties of man)'. Reading sample
personal data
SURNAME Riquetti, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mirabeau, Victor Riquetti Marquis de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French economist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Pertuis
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1789
Place of death Argenteuil