Michel Chevalier

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Michel Chevalier

Michel Chevalier (French: [miʃɛl ʃəvalje]; 13 January 1806 – 18 November 1879) was a French engineer, statesman, economist and free market liberal.

Biography

Born in

École des mines in 1829. [1]

In 1830, after the

Saint-Simonian, and edited their paper Le Globe.[2] The paper was banned in 1832 when the "Simonian sect
" was found to be prejudicial to the social order, and Chevalier, as its editor, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.

After his release,

racial affinity with all the European peoples with a Romance culture. Chevalier postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a "Latin race," which could be a natural ally of "Latin Europe" in its struggle with "Teutonic Europe," "Anglo-Saxon America" and "Slavic Europe."[4] [5][6]

In 1837, he wrote a well-received work, Des intérèts matériels en France, after which his career took off. At age 35, he was appointed professor of political economy at the Collège de France.[citation needed]

In 1839, letters that he sent to France during his mission to North America were translated and edited by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford and published in the United States as, Society, manners, and politics in the United States, being a series of letters on North America.[7] Orestes Brownson reviewed the book and wrote that "The work itself is highly important and interesting, and is well worth the perusal and even the study of every American citizen."[8]

He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1852.[9]

Chevalier was an early member of the Société d'économie politique organized in 1842 by Pellegrino Rossi.[10] He was elected a

Senator followed in 1860. In 1859, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
. Together with
Cobden-Chevalier Treaty
.

He died in Lodève.

Works

  • Des intérèts matériels en France, 1837
  • Society, manners and politics in the United States; being a series of letters on North America, 1839
  • Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États-Unis, 1840–42, 2 volumes
  • Essais de politique industrielle, 1843
  • Cours d'économie politique, 1842-44 u. 1850, 3 volumes
  • L'isthme de Panama, suivi d'un aperçu sur l'isthme de Suez, 1844
  • Les Brevets d'invention examinés dans leurs rapports avec le principe de la liberté du travail et avec le principe de l'égalité des citoyens, 1878

See also

  • Manchester capitalism
  • Saint-Simonianism

References

  1. ^ Robinson, Moncure. "Obituary Notice of Michel Chevalier." (1880): 28-37. May 7, Read before the American Philosophical Society, May 7, 1880
  2. ^ Kirwan, Andrew Valentine. Modern France: Its Journalism, Literature, and Society. London, 1863, pp. 35-36.
  3. ^ The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, 1851, Volume 22, p. 515.
  4. ISBN 978-1-4051-0086-1
    .
  5. ISBN 0-8078-5441-7
  6. ISBN 0-393-97613-0
    .
  7. ^ Michel Chevalier. Society, manners and politics in the United States; being a series of letters on North America. Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co., 1839.
  8. ^ The Boston Quarterly Review, 1840, Volume 3, p. 209.
  9. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
  10. ^ Courtois, Alphonse (1846), "Notice historique", Annales de la Société d'économie politique (in French): 7–10, retrieved 2017-08-18

Further reading

External links

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Chevalier, Michel".
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michel_Chevalier&oldid=1217665187"