BIGOT DE MOROGUES, Pierre Marie Sébastien, baron.

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Recherche des causes de la richesse et de la misère des peuples civilisés. First edition, one of 100 copies lithographed from the original manuscript, of this study of French poverty in the early 19th century. The Recherche des causes includes extensive statistical information on birth rates and populations.Pierre Bigot de Morogues (1776-1840), a politician and mineralogist, criticizes free enterprise and industrialization as dangerous to the worker, advocating a rural economy instead.A three-page tract by Morogues, titled Analyse des effets de la grande industrie sur le pauperisme et remèdies a y apporter, is tipped in after the title page. This undated and apparently unrecorded tract examines the effect of mass industrialization on the impoverished in each of the ten most industrialized French départements.This copy also contains a loosely inserted five-page 1844 circular by Tanneguy Duchâtel (1803-1867), then minister of the interior, requesting more statistically rigorous annuaires (reports) for French départements. Also loosely inserted is a four-page manuscript letter by an unidentified author, seemingly presenting a sample of his work to Morogues.

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