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Michel Chevalier (
January 13,
1806—
November 18,
1879) was a
French engineer, statesman,
economist and
free market liberal.
Biography
Born in
Limoges, Chevalier studied at the
École Polytechnique, obtaining an engineering degree at the
Paris École des mines in 1829.
In 1830, after the
July Revolution, he became a
Saint-Simonian, and edited their paper
Le Globe. The paper was banned in 1832, when the "Simonian
sect" was found to be prejudicial to the social order, and Chevalier, as its editor, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
After his release,
Minister of the Interior Adolphe Thiers sent him on a mission to the
United States and
Mexico, to observe the state of industrial and financial affairs in the
Americas. In 1837 he wrote a well received work,
Des intérèts matériels en France, after which his career took off.
At age 35, he was appointed professor of
political economy at the
Collège de France. He was elected a
député for the
département of
Aveyron in 1845, an appointment of
Senator followed in 1860.
Together with
Richard Cobden and
John Bright he prepared the
free trade agreement of 1860 between the
United Kingdom and France, which is still called
Cobden-Chevalier Treaty.
He died in
Montpellier.
Works
- Des intérèts matériels en France, 1837
- Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États-Unis, 1840-42, 2 volumes
- Essais de politique industrielle, 1843
- Cours d'économie politique, 1842-44 u. 1850, 3 volumes
- L'isthme de Panama, suivi d'un apercu sur l'isthme de Suez, 1844
- Les Brevets d'invention examinés dans leurs rapports avec le principe de la liberté du travail et avec le principe de l'égalité des citoyens, 1878
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