Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
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Pierre le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert or Boisguillebert (French:
Early life
He was born at Rouen of an ancient noble family of
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
Indeed, his work, written in a diffuse and inelegant style, passed almost unnoticed.
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
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Boisguilbert, Pierre le Pesant". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 154. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Boisguilbert, P. Le Pesant de (1966). Pierre de Boisguilbert ou la naissance de l'economie politique. Paris: Institut national d'etudes demographiques.