Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert

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Pierre le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert or Boisguillebert (French:

Jansenist, one of the inventors of the notion of an economic market
.

Early life

He was born at Rouen of an ancient noble family of

bailliage of Rouen, a post which he retained almost until his death, leaving it to his son.[1]

Taxation proposals

In his two leadership positions he made a close study of local economic conditions, personally, supervising the cultivation of his lands, and entering into relations with the principal merchants of Rouen. He was thus led to consider the misery of the people under the burden of

tax farmers and found little support.[1]

Indeed, his work, written in a diffuse and inelegant style, passed almost unnoticed.

Auvergne for six months. At last in 1710 the controller-general, Nicolas Desmarets, established a new tax, the tenth (dixième), which had some analogy with the project of Boisguilbert. Instead of replacing the former taxes, however, Desmarets simply added his dixième to them.[1]

Publications

In 1712 appeared a Testament politique de M. de Vauban, which is simply Boisguilberts Détail de la France. Vauban's Dîme royale was formerly wrongly attributed to him. Boisguilberts works were collected by

References

  1. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Boisguilbert, Pierre le Pesant". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 154.
  2. ^ Boisguilbert, P. Le Pesant de (1966). Pierre de Boisguilbert ou la naissance de l'economie politique. Paris: Institut national d'etudes demographiques.