LOUIS

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• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS

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• MICHEL
• MICHEL, CLAUDE
• MICHEL, FRANCISQUE XAVIER (1809-1887)

MICHEL

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• RAYMOND, HENRY JARVIS (1820-1869)

RAYMOND

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• LOUIS FRANCOIS MICHEL RAYMOND WOLOWSKI (1810-1876)

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