Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . cal economywere called. They waged unrelenting warfareagainst the errors and abuses that dwarfed com-mercial enterprise and ruined the tillers of the Pont devoted himself to the cause with zeal,and did more than any one else to give currency tothe philanthropic doctrines of the school. Hisfirst important book, De lexportation et de Pim-portation des grains (1764), had a great , then intendant at Limoges, sought theyoung authors acquaintance, and a close and last-ing intimacy ensued. During the next few yearsDu Ponts chief publ
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . cal economywere called. They waged unrelenting warfareagainst the errors and abuses that dwarfed com-mercial enterprise and ruined the tillers of the Pont devoted himself to the cause with zeal,and did more than any one else to give currency tothe philanthropic doctrines of the school. Hisfirst important book, De lexportation et de Pim-portation des grains (1764), had a great , then intendant at Limoges, sought theyoung authors acquaintance, and a close and last-ing intimacy ensued. During the next few yearsDu Ponts chief publications were Physiocratie, acompendium of Quesnays system (1768); De lori-gine et du progres dune science nouvelle (1768): Du commerce de la compagnie des Indes (1769): Histoire abregee des finances de lAngleterre(1769); Analyse du poeme des saisons (1769);and Observations sur les effets de la liberte ducommerce des grains et sur aux des prohibitions (1770). He also edited the Journal de Fagricult- 264 1U* PONT DE NEMOURS DU PONT DE NEMOURS. / ore, ilu commerce, ei des finances (1765-6), andfrom May, 1768, the Ephemerides ducitoyen,E m of the economists. To a minister of theqnestionable expedients of the * Terray a manhko Du Pont could not fail to be obnoxious, andin 1770 the publication of the Eph&n&ides- forbidden. Though persecuted at homo, its editor received va-rious titles anddecorations fromforeign princes,and in 1774 wentto Poland, at theinstance of KingStanislas- Augus-tus, to organizea genera] systemof national educa-tion. Later in theyear, when Turgotsucceeded Ter-ray as comptrol-ler-general of thefinances, Du Pontwas named in-spector-general ofcommerce, andordered to re-turn forthwith toPrance. At the head of the bureau in the minis-tryof finance, to which all affairs of importancereferred, he took a prominent part in allthe measures of reform that Turgot famous Report on the Municipalities, whichwas really the draft of a liberal constitution,
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