| Full Title |
Essai d'une méthode générale, propre a étendre les connaissances des voyageurs ... Appuyé sur des faits exacts, & enrichi d'expériences utiles |
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| Language |
French |
| Year |
1779 |
| Text Type |
Essay |
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No |
| Prose / Verse |
prose |
| Themes |
- DescrScheme
- scientinstruct
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| Comment |
Munier, an inspector of the Ponts-et-Chaussées, devised first a method of description in 1770, then applied this to the Angoumois in 1779. The idea, typical of contemporary French political arithmetic, was to create a perfect economical description of France, region par region - this description was the model to follow. It touches all possible aspects of economy, but is interested in other aspects of life only in relation to this. |
| Authorship Notes |
Munier, an inspector of the Ponts-et-Chaussées, devised his method of description in 1770, and then applied it to the Angoumois in this work of 1779. The idea, typical of contemporary French political arithmetic, was to create a perfect economic description of France by region, and this work was to serve as a model. It touches all possible aspects of the economy, but is interested in other aspects of life only as they relate to this subject.
See Jean-Claude Perrot, 'L'âge d'or de la statistique régionale' (an IV - 1804). Annales historiques de la Révolution française (1976), pp. 215-276, 220. He references Numa Broc, who considered Bernard's preface to the 'Voyages du Nord' a forerunner (described elsewhere in this database). |
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