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LEVASSEUR, PIERRE EMILE (1828– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 505 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEVASSEUR, See also:PIERRE EMILE (1828– ) , See also:French economist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 8th of See also:December 1828. Educated in Paris, he began to See also:teach in the lycee at See also:Alencon in 1852, and in 1857 was chosen See also:professor of See also:rhetoric at See also:Besancon. He re-turned to Paris to become professor at the lycee See also:Saint See also:Louis, and in 1868 he was chosen a member of the See also:academy of moral and See also:political sciences. In 1872 he was appointed professor of See also:geography, See also:history and See also:statistics in the See also:College de See also:France, and subsequently became also professor at the See also:Conservatoire See also:des arts et metiers and at the Ecole libre des sciences politiques. Levasseur was one of the founders of the study of commercial geography, and became a member of the See also:Council of Public Instruction, See also:president of the French society of political See also:economy and honorary president of the French See also:geographical society. His numerous writings include: Histoire des classes ouvrieres en France depuis in conquete de Jules Cesar jusqu'd la Revolution (1859) ; Histoire des classes ouvrieres en France depuis la Revolution jusqu'd nos jours (1867) ; L'Etude et l'enseigneinent de la geographic (1871) ; La See also:Population francaise (1889–1892); L'See also:Agriculture aux Etats-Unis (1894); L'Enseignement primaire clans See also:les pays civilises (1897); L'Ouvrier americain (1898) ; Questions ouvrieres etindustrielles sous la troisieme Republique (1907); and Histoire des classes ouvrieres et de l'indusirie en France de 1789 d 1870 (1903–i904). He also published a See also:Grand See also:Atlas de geographic physique et politiyue (1890–1892).

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