Michel Chevalier

Michel Chevalier ( born January 13, 1806 Limoges, † November 18, 1879 in Montpellier) was a French economist and free-traders. Chevalier was regarded as Manchester Liberal and Panlatinist.

Chevalier attended the Collège in Limoges, then the Polytechnic School in Paris, and from 1825 to a miner's educational institution and received shortly before the July Revolution a job as an engineer in the North Department.

He devoted himself at first to the ideas of Henri de Saint -Simon, worked at Organisateur with, then ran the Globe and Pere Enfantin was followed as for its propaganda. Little after, however, he was sent by the Government to the United States in order to examine the development of transport.

1838 Chevalier of State in extraordinary service, in 1840 professor of political economy at the Collège de France in 1841 and chief engineer of mining. In 1845 he was a member of the chamber in the department of Aveyron, but was voted out again due to its manchester liberal views.

After the coup on December 2, 1851 he was again in the extraordinary service of State and Senator in 1860.

Together with Richard Cobden and John Bright, he prepared the free trade agreement between France and the UK by 1860. This treaty still bears his name: Cobden -Chevalier Treaty.

After the fall of the Empire in France, Chevalier was back in the free trade opposition.

Writings

• In interets matériels de France, 1837
• Histoire et description of voies de communication aux États -Unis, 1840-42, 2 vols
• Essais de politique industrielle, 1843
• Cours d' économie politique, 1842-44 and 1850, 3 vols
• L' isthme de Panama, suivi d'un apercu sur l' isthme de Suez, 1844