1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Reybaud, Marie Roch Louis

REYBAUD, MARIE ROCH LOUIS (1799–1879), French writer, economist and politician, was born at Marseilles on the 15th of August 1799. After travelling in the Levant and in India, he settled in Paris in 1829. Besides writing for the Radical press, he edited the Histoire scientifique et militaire de l'expédition française en Egypte in ten volumes (1830–36) and Dumont d'Urville's Voyage autour du monde (1833). In 1840 he published Études sur les reformateurs ou socialist es modernes (see Socialism) which gained him the Montyon prize (1841) and a place in the Académie des sciences morales et politiques (1850). In 1843 he published Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d'un position sociale, a clever social satire that had a prodigious success. In 1846 he abandoned his democratic views, and was elected liberal deputy for Marseilles. His Jérôme Paturot à la recherche de la meilleure des républiques (1848) was a satire on the new Republican ideas. After the coup d'état of 1849 he ceased to take part in public life, and devoted himself entirely to the study of political economy. To this period belong his La Vie de l'employe (1855); L'Industrie en Europe (1856); and Études sur le régime de dos manufactures (1859). He died in Paris on the 28th of October 1879.