Jean Meuvret (1901–1971) was a historian of

early modern France The Kingdom of France in the early modern period, from the French Renaissance, Renaissance () to the French Revolution, Revolution (1789–1804), was a monarchy ruled by the House of Bourbon (a Capetian dynasty, Capetian cadet branch). This corr ...

. He was a tutor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and was known in Europe and America for his pioneering studies of the French economy in the seventeenth century. His most important work, ''Le problème des subsistances á l'époque de

Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

'', examines the corn economy of France during the

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. Meuvret was interested in showing how historical conditions affected different networks of exchange in an early monetary economy.

References

* Robert William Fogel, ''The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100 Europe, America, and the Third World'', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. * Albert Soboul, "Jean Meuvret (1901-1971)", ''Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine'', T. 19e, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1972), pp. 1–5 1901 births 1971 deaths 20th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers {{France-historian-stub