BAUDRILLART, HENRI JOSEPH LEON (18211892)

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BAUDRILLART, HENRI JOSEPH LEON (18211892) ,

French

economist, was born in Paris on the 28th of November 1821. His father, Jacques Joseph (17741832), was a distinguished writer on forestry, and was for many years in the service of the

French

government, eventually becoming the head of that branch of the department of

agriculture

which had charge of the state forests. Henri was educated at the College Bourbon, where he had a distinguished career, and in 1852 he was appointed assistant lecturer in political

economy

ECONOMY

to M. Chevalier at the College de France. In 1866, on the creation of a new chair of economic history, Baudrillart was appointed to fill it. His first

work

WORK

was an Eloge de Margot (1846), which at once won him notice among the economists. In 1853 he published an erudite

work

WORK

Jean

JEAN

Bodin et son temps; then in 1857 a

Manuel

d'economie polilique; in 1860, Des rapports de la morale et de l'economie polilique; in 1865, La Liberte du travail; and from 1878 to 188o, L'Histoire du luxe . . depuis l'antiquile jusqu'a nos jours, in four volumes. At the instance of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques he investigated the

condition

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

of the farming classes of France, and published the results in four volumes (1885, et seq.). From 1855 to 1864 he directed the

Journal

JOURNAL
JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

des economistes, and contributed many articles to the

Journal

JOURNAL
JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

des debats and to the Revue des deux mondes. His writings are distinguished by their

style

, as well as by their profound erudition. In 1863 he was elected member of the Academic des Sciences Morales et Politiques; in 187o he was appointed inspector-general of public libraries, and in 1881 he succeeded J.

Garnier

GARNIER, CLEMENT JOSEPH (1813–1881)
GARNIER, GERMAIN, MARQUIS (1754-1821)
GARNIER,
JEAN
- JEAN
LOUIS CHARLES (1825-1898)
GARNIER, MARIE JOSEPH FRANCOIS [FRANCIS] (1839–1873)
GARNIER, ROBERT (c. 1545–c.1600)

as professor of political

economy

ECONOMY

at the Ecole des Ponta et Chaussees. Baudrillart was made an officer of the Legion of Honour in 1889. He died in Paris on the 24th of January 1892.

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