Chevalier, MICHEL, an eminent French economist, was born at Limoges, January 13, 1806, and was trained as an engineer. At first an ardent St Simonian and busy contributor to the Globe, he attached himself to the party of Enfantin, and took an active part in the compilation of the famous propagandist Livre Nouveau. After six months' imprisonment in 1832, he had the prudence to retract all that he had written in the Globe contrary to Christianity and against marriage. Soon after he was sent by Thiers to inquire into the systems of water and railway communication in the United States. In 1837 he published his chief work, Des Intérêts Matériels en France. He was made a councillor of state in 1838, and was appointed in 1840 to the chair of Political Economy in the Collège de France. In 1845 he was returned by Aveyron to the Chamber of Deputies. After the revolution of 1848 he made onslaughts that were never met upon the socialism of Louis Blanc in Questions de Travailleurs, as well as in the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Journal des Débats. A number of these vigorous and masterly articles were collected under the titles, Lettres sur
L'Organisation du Travail (1848) and Questions politiques et sociales (1852). A free-trader in economics, Chevalier in 1860 aided Cobden in carrying into effect the commercial treaty between France and England. For this he was created a senator and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. He took an active interest in the great exhibitions at London (1862) and Paris (1867). He died at Montpellier, 28th November 1879.