Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur
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Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695, Paris
- 30 November 1774) was a French economist and statistician.
and cousin of Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour
. He became treasurer of France at the Bureau de la généralité de Paris and was made a conseiller du roi.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
- 30 November 1774) was a French economist and statistician.
Life
From a family of jurists and financial figures, he was the son of a correcteur in the Chambre des comptesChambre des comptes
Under the French monarchy, the Courts of Accounts were sovereign courts specialising in financial affairs. The Court of Accounts in Paris was the oldest and the forerunner of today's French Court of Audit...
and cousin of Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour
Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour
Jean-Baptiste Henri de Trousset, lord of Valincour or Valincourt was a French admiral and man of letters...
. He became treasurer of France at the Bureau de la généralité de Paris and was made a conseiller du roi.
Works
- Le Paradis perdu de Milton. Poème heroique, traduit de l'anglois, avec les remarques de Mr. AddissonJoseph AddisonJoseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison...
(1729) (3 volumes) - a prose translation of Paradise LostParadise LostParadise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse...
and Paradise RegainedParadise RegainedParadise Regained is a poem by the English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes...
by the English poet John MiltonJohn MiltonJohn Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
, this work was first published by Saint-Maur and was often reissued. Though his authorship of it is uncertain, it was doubtless the reason for his election to the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
four years later, in 1733. - Essai sur les monnaies, ou réflexions sur le rapport entre l'argent et les denrées (1746) Online extracts : http://www.taieb.net/fiches/dupre.htm - A treatment of European coinage and relationships between the price of wheat, wine, oil, meat, wood and other commodities and salaries paid from 1002 to 1742. It also tried to demonstrate that food prices had increased twelvefold since AD 1 and was one of the first works to introduce John LockeJohn LockeJohn Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
's ideas into France. Adam SmithAdam SmithAdam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...
praised its food-price statistics in his Wealth of Nations and BuffonGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonGeorges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier...
used its mortality statistics in his Histoire naturelle de l'homme. - Recherches sur la valeur des monnoies et sur le prix des grains avant et après le concile de FrancfortCouncil of FrankfurtThe Council of Frankfurt in 794 was called by Charlemagne. This church council condemned the Adoptionist heresy and revoked decrees regarding the holy icons which were established in 787 at the Second Council of Nicaea...
(1762) - Mémoire sur la décadence du commerce de BayonneBayonneBayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
et Saint-Jean-de-LuzSaint-Jean-de-LuzSaint-Jean-de-Luz is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.Saint-Jean-de-Luz is part of the province Basque of Labourd and the Basque Eurocity Bayonne - San Sebastian .-Geography:...
, et sur les moyens de le rétablir (1783) - Mémoire important sur l'administration des corvéeCorvéeCorvée is unfree labour, often unpaid, that is required of people of lower social standing and imposed on them by the state or a superior . The corvée was the earliest and most widespread form of taxation, which can be traced back to the beginning of civilization...
s dans la généralitéGénéralitéRecettes générales, commonly known as généralités , were the administrative divisions of France under the Ancien Régime and are often considered to prefigure the current préfectures...
de GuyenneFrench GuianaFrench Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west...
, et observations sur les rémontrances du Parlement de BordeauxBordeauxBordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
(1784)