Marie Roch Louis Reybaud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marie Roch Louis Reybaud

French writer, political economist and politician

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1799

Place of Birth: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-CĂ´te d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1879

Profession: politician, economist, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Marie Roch Louis Reybaud

  • Marie Roch Louis Reybaud (15 August 1799 – 26 or 28 October 1879), was a French writer, political economist and politician.
  • He was born at Marseille.After travelling in the Levant and in India, he settled in Paris in 1829.
  • Besides writing for the Radical press, he edited the Histoire scientifique et militaire de l'expĂ©dition française en Égypte in ten volumes (1830–36) and Dumont d'Urville's Voyage au tour du monde (1833). In 1840 he published Études sur les rĂ©formateurs ou socialistes modernes which gained him the Montyon prize (1841) and a place in the AcadĂ©mie des sciences morales et politiques (1850).
  • In 1843 he published JĂ©rĂ´me Paturot Ă  la recherche d'une position sociale, a clever social satire that had a prodigious success.
  • In 1846 he abandoned his democratic views, and was elected liberal deputy for Marseille. Reybaud was an early member of the SociĂ©tĂ© d'Ă©conomie politique organized in 1842 by Pellegrino Rossi.His JĂ©rĂ´me Paturot a la recherche de 10 meilleure des republiques (1848) was a satire on the new republican ideas.
  • After the coup d'Ă©tat of 1849 he ceased to take part in public life, and devoted himself entirely to the study of political economy.
  • To this period belong his La Vie de l'emploi (1855); L'Industrie en Europe (1856); and Études sur le rĂ©gime de nos manufactures (1859); Le coton: son rĂ©gime, ses problèmes, (1863). Reybaud died at Paris.

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