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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 777 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS FRANCOIS MICHEL RAYMOND WOLOWSKI (1810-1876)  , French economist and politician, was born in Warsaw and educated in Paris, but returned to Warsaw and took
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part in the revolution of 1830 . Sent to Paris as secretary to the legation by the provisional government, he settled there on the suppression of the
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Polish
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rebellion and was naturalized in 1834 . In 1833 he founded the Revue de legislation et de jurisprudence, and wrote voluminously on economic and
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financial subjects . He established the first Credit Foncier in France in 1852, and in 1864 became professor of
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political
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economy at the Conservatoire in succession to J . A . Blanqui . He was a member of the
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national assembly from 1848 to 1851, and again from 1871 till his election as a senator in 1876 . He was a strong
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free-trader and an ardent bimetallist . Of his
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works the following are the more important: Mobilisation du credit foncier (1839); De l'organisation indusirielle de la France avant Colbert (1842) ;
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Les Finances de la Russie (1864) ; La Question
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des banques (1864) ; La Liberte commerciale (1869) ; L' Or et l'argent (1870) .

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