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CHEVALIER, MICHEL (1806-1879)
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See also:CHEVALIER, See also:MICHEL (1806-1879) , See also:French economist, was See also:born at See also:Limoges on the 13th of See also:January 18o6. In his See also:early manhood, while employed as an engineer, he became a convert to the theories of See also:Saint See also:Simon; these he ardently advocated in the Globe, the See also:organ of the Saint Simonians, which he edited until his See also:arrest in 1832 on a See also:charge of outraging public morality by its publication. He was sentenced to a See also:year's imprisonment, but was released in six months through the intervention of See also:Thiers, who sent him on a See also:special See also:mission to the See also:United States to study the question of See also:land and See also:water transport. In 1836 he published, in two volumes, the letters he wrote from See also:America to the See also:Journal See also:des debats. These attracted so much See also:attention that he was sent in the same year on an economic mission to See also:England, which resulted in his publication (in 1838) of Des interets materiels de la See also:France. The success of this made his position secure, and in 1840 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:political See also:economy in the See also:College de France. He sat for a See also:short See also:time (1845–1846) as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, but lost his seat owing to his enthusiastic See also:adoption of the principles of See also:free See also:trade. Under See also:Napoleon III. he was restored to the position of which the revolution of 1848 had temporarily deprived him. In 185o he became a member of the See also:Institute, and in the following year published an important See also:work in favour of free trade, under the See also:title of Examen du systeme commercial connu sous le nom de systeme protecteur. His See also:chief public See also:triumph was the important See also:part he played in bringing about the conclusion of the commercial treaty between France and See also:Great See also:Britain in ,86o. Previously to this he had served, in 1855, upon the See also:commission for organizing the See also:Exhibition of 1855, and his services there led to his forming one of the French See also:jury of awards in the See also:London Exhibition of 1862. He was created a member of the See also:Senate in 186o, and continued for some years to take an active part in its discussions. He retired from public See also:life in 1870, but was unceasingly industrious with his See also:pen. He became See also:grand officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1861, and during the later years of his life received from many quarters public recognition of his See also:eminence as a political economist. He died at his See also:chateau near See also:Montpellier (See also:Herault) on the 28th of See also:November 1879. Many of his See also:works have been translated into See also:English and other See also:languages. Besides those already mentioned the more important are: Cours d'economie politique (1842–1850); Essais de politique industrielle (1843); De la baisse probable d'or (1859, translated into English by See also:Cobden, On the Probable Fall of the Value of See also:Gold, See also:Manchester, 1859); L'Expedition du Mexique (1862); Introduction aux rapports du jury See also:international (1868). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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