Le Play, FRÉDÉRIC (1806–82), engineer and economist, was professor in the School of Mines at Paris, and a senator. He was a commissioner at several exhibitions, and wrote Les Ouvriers Européens (1855), La Réforme Sociale (1864; 7th ed. 1887), L'Organisation du Travail (1870; 5th ed. 1888), on the family, on the English constitution, La Constitution essentielle de l'Humanité (1881), &c.
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