HUERNE DE POMMEUSE, Michel Louis François.

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Des colonies agricoles et leurs avantages First edition of this important defence of farm labour colonies, arguing that they would "not only solve the problems that accompanied youth in the city but would increase wealth in the vacant land of France" (Arneil, p. 42). Commercially scarce, it is reasonably well represented among institutional libraries; although the only copy in the UK is held at the University of Reading.Michel Huerne de Pommeuse (1765-1840) was a lawyer and landowner, who served two terms as deputy for Seine-et-Marne, in 1815-16 and 1820-7. He wrote several important works on the construction of canals but his name is most closely associated with the current project: "having studied agricultural colonies in Holland during the Restoration he became the most eloquent advocate of their development in France" (French Studies, p. 40). The farm colonies of the Low Countries influenced the establishment of Frédéric-Auguste Demetz's influential "open prison" at Mettray in 1840.The publisher was Marie-Rosalie Huzard, who took over the running of the imprimerie-librairie established by her husband in 1792 and by 1798 "she was the printer for the écoles vétérinaires de France... [and] maintained steady business also as the printer for the journals Annales de l'agriculture, Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture du département de la Seine, and Annales des mines" (Ellwood).

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