Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur (1695,

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– 30 November 1774) was a French economist and statistician.

Biography

From a family of jurists and financial figures, he was the son of a correcteur in the

Chambre des comptes Under the French monarchy, the Courts of Accounts (in French ''Chambres des comptes'') were sovereign courts specialising in financial affairs. The Court of Accounts in Paris was the oldest and the forerunner of today's French Court of Audit. ...

and cousin of

Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour Jean-Baptiste Henri de Trousset, lord of Valincour or Valincourt (1 March 1653, Paris – 4 January 1730) was a French admiral and man of letters. He was a friend of chancellor d'Aguesseau, Racine (who he replaced at Académie française and as of ...

. He became treasurer of France at the Bureau de la généralité de Paris and was made a conseiller du roi.

Works

*''Le Paradis perdu de Milton. Poème heroique, traduit de l'anglois, avec les remarques de Mr. Addisson'' (1729) (3 volumes) - a prose translation of '' Paradise Lost'' and ''

Paradise Regained ''Paradise Regained'' is a poem by English poet John Milton, first published in 1671. The volume in which it appeared also contained the poet's closet drama ''Samson Agonistes''. ''Paradise Regained'' is connected by name to his earlier and ...

'' by the English poet John Milton, this work was first published by Saint-Maur and was often reissued. Though his authorship of it is uncertain, it was doubtless the reason for his election to the Académie française four years later, in 1733. *''Essai sur les monnaies, ou réflexions sur le rapport entre l'argent et les denrées'' (1746) Online extracts

- A treatment of European coinage and relationships between the price of wheat, wine, oil, meat, wood and other commodities and salaries paid from 1002 to 1742. It also tried to demonstrate that

food prices Food prices refer to the average price level for food across countries, regions and on a global scale. Food prices have an impact on producers and consumers of food. Price levels depend on the food production process, including food marketing ...

had increased twelvefold since AD 1 and was one of the first works to introduce John Locke's ideas into France. Adam Smith praised its food-price statistics in his ''

Wealth of Nations ''An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations'', generally referred to by its shortened title ''The Wealth of Nations'', is the ''magnum opus'' of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1 ...

'' and Buffon used its mortality statistics in his ''Histoire naturelle de l'homme''. *''Recherches sur la valeur des monnoies et sur le prix des grains avant et après le concile de Francfort'' (1762) *''Mémoire sur la décadence du commerce de Bayonne et

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s dans la

généralité ''Recettes générales'', commonly known as ''généralités'' (), were the administrative divisions of France under the Ancien Régime and are often considered to prefigure the current ''préfectures''. At the time of the French Revolution, there ...

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, et observations sur les rémontrances du Parlement de

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...

'' (1784)

External links

Académie française
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