Members of the National Legislative Assembly of the French Second Republic - Achille Fould, Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre Gouin, Andre Mari (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Achille Fould, Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre Gouin, Andre Marie Jean Jacques Dupin, Antoine Pierre Berryer, Auguste Casimir-Perier, Charles Dupin, Cyrille Bissette, Emile de Girardin, Ferdinand Barrot, Frederic Bastiat, Gaspard Gourgaud, Gustave de Beaumont, Henri-Francois-Alphonse Esquiros, Hippolyte Carnot, Jacques Pierre Abbatucci (minister), Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Charras, Jean-Baptiste Cecille, Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova, Jonas Ennery, Jules Armand Dufaure, Jules Baroche, Jules Barthelemy-Saint-Hilaire, Jules Favre, Jules Grevy, Louis Buffet, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Louis Wolowski, Napoleon, comte Daru, Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier, Odilon Barrot, Prosper de Chasseloup-Laubat, Victor de Broglie (1785-1870). Excerpt: Claude Frederic Bastiat (French: 30 June 1801 - 24 December 1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. He was notable for developing the important economic concept of opportunity cost, and for penning the influential Parable of the Broken Window. Bastiat was born in Bayonne, Aquitaine, a port town in the south of France on the Bay of Biscay, on 30 June 1801. His father, Pierre Bastiat, was a prominent businessman in the town. His mother died in 1808 when Frederic was seven years old. His father moved inland to the town of Mugron with Frederic following soon after. The Bastiat estate in Mugron had been acquired during the French Revolution and had previously belonged to the Marquis of Poyanne. Pierre Bastiat died in 1810, leaving Frederic an orphan. He was taken in by his paternal grandfather and his maiden aunt, Justine Bastiat. He attended a school in Bayonne, but his aunt thought poorly of it and so enrolled him in Saint-Sever. At 17, he left school at Soreze to work for his uncle in his...