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BAUDRILLART, See also:HENRI See also:JOSEPH See also:LEON (1821–1892) , See also:French economist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 28th of See also:November 1821. His See also:father, Jacques Joseph (1774–1832), was a distinguished writer on forestry, and was for many years in the service of the French See also:government, eventually becoming the See also:head of that See also:branch of the See also:department of See also:agriculture which had See also:charge of the See also:state forests. Henri was educated at the See also:College See also:Bourbon, where he had a distinguished career, and in 1852 he was appointed assistant lecturer in See also:political See also:economy to M. See also:Chevalier at the College de See also:France. In 1866, on the creation of a new See also:chair of economic See also:history, Baudrillart was appointed to fill it. His first See also:work was an Eloge de Margot (1846), which at once won him See also:notice among the economists. In 1853 he published an erudite work on See also:Jean See also:Bodin et son temps; then in 1857 a See also:Manuel d'economie polilique; in 1860, See also: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 See also:condition of the farming classes of France, and published the results in four volumes (1885, et seq.). From 1855 to 1864 he directed the See also:Journal des economistes, and contributed many articles to the Journal des debats and to the Revue des deux mondes. His writings are distinguished by their See also:style, as well as by their profound erudition. In 1863 he was elected member of the See also:Academic des Sciences Morales et Politiques; in 187o he was appointed inspector-See also:general of public See also:libraries, and in 1881 he succeeded J.

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Garnier as See also:professor of political economy at the Ecole des Ponta et Chaussees. Baudrillart was made an officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1889. He died in Paris on the 24th of See also:January 1892.

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