Claude Carlier, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Claude Carlier

French historian (1725-1787)

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1725

Date of Death: 25-Apr-1787

Profession: historian, agronomist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Claude Carlier

  • Claude Carlier (7 September 1725 – 25 April 1787), called the AbbĂ© Carlier, was a French religious, historian and agronomist.
  • He was the prior of AndrĂ©sy and prĂ©vĂ´t royal (royal provost) of the châtellenie (castellany) of Verberie, where he was born and died. Carlier came to public notice when he participated in a contest held by the Academy of Amiens and sponsored by the intendant of finances Daniel-Charles Trudaine between 1752 and 1754.
  • The contest asked whether France could do without foreign wool, and how French wool production could be improved in both quality and quantity.
  • Carlier had a deep knowledge of sheep breeding, the fleece trade and the different kinds of wool produced by different sheep breeds.
  • He won the contest with an essay arguing that Spanish and English breeds produced better wool.
  • A few years later, the controller-general of finances, Henri Bertin, hired Carlier as a consultant-propagandist tasked with promoting new breeds of sheep and new shepherding practices.In 1762, Carlier published Considerations on the Means of Re-establishing in France Good Species of Wool Sheep and Bertin distributed copies to agricultural societies throughout France.
  • In 1763, when Bertin turned his attention to Flemish sheep, Carlier produced a book on the subject, Instruction in the Manner of Raising and Perfecting the Good Species of Wool Sheep in Flanders.
  • This book was highly influential in the subsequent adoption of Flemish breeds throughout France.
  • Carlier was then tasked with producing a questionnaire to be sent to all the regions of France on breeding practices.
  • This elicited over 300 responses.
  • Carlier himself synthesised the data in a two-volume publication in 1770, Treaty on Wool Sheep, or a Method of Raising and Perfecting the Herds in the Fields and the Sheepfold, a Practical Work.Carlier wrote an important history of the County and Duchy of Valois.

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