Marie Roch Louis Reybaud (15 August 1799 – 26 or 28 October 1879) was a French writer,

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and politician. He was born in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...

. After travelling in the

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and in

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, he settled in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

in 1829. Besides writing for the Radical press, he edited the ''Histoire scientifique et militaire de l'expédition française en Égypte'' in ten volumes (1830–36) and

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's ''Voyage au tour du monde'' (1833). In 1840 he published ''Études sur les réformateurs ou socialistes modernes'' which gained him the

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(1841) and a place in the

Académie des sciences morales et politiques An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...

(1850). In 1843 he published ''Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d'une position sociale'', a clever social satire that had a prodigious success. In 1846 he abandoned his democratic views, and was elected liberal deputy for Marseille. Reybaud was an early member of the Société d'économie politique organized in 1842 by

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. His ''Jérôme Paturot a la recherche de 10 meilleure des republiques'' (1848) was a satire on the new

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ideas. Afterwards he published ''La Vie de l'emploi'' (1855), ''L'Industrie en Europe'' (1856), ''Études sur le régime de nos manufactures'' (1859), and ''Le coton: son régime, ses problèmes'' (1863). Reybaud died in Paris.

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