Reybaud

Reybaud, MARIE ROCH LOUIS, a clever French writer, was born at Marseilles, 15th August 1799, travelled in the Levant and India, and returned to Paris in 1829 to write for the Radical papers and edit the Histoire scientifique et militaire de l'Expédition Française en Égypte (10 vols. 1830-36), Dumont d'Urville's Voyage autour du Monde (1833), and Origny's Voyage dans les deux Amériques (1836). His studies in social science bore fruit as Études sur les Réformateurs ou Socialistes modernes (2 vols. 1840-43; 7th ed. 1864), which gained him the Montyon prize (1841) and a place in the Academy of Moral Sciences (1850). His unusually original satiric novel, Jérôme Paturot à la recherche d'une Position sociale (1843), became widely popular, and was followed by the less successful Jérôme Paturot à la recherche de la meilleure des Républiques (1848). Reybaud took an active part in politics, first voted with the Left, but after the July revolution with the Right, and was sent by the Assembly to Algeria to visit the agricultural colonies established there. His last thirty years were devoted to studies in economics. From 1850 a member of the Academy, he died at Paris 28th October 1879. Among his later works were Marines et Voyages (1854), Scènes de la Vie moderne (1855), L'Industrie en Europe (1856), and Études sur le Régime des Manufactures (1859).