GÉRANDO, Joseph Marie de.

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De La Bienfaisance Publique. First edition of this comprehensive study of poverty and poor relief in post-Napoleonic France. Joseph Marie de Gérando (1772-1842) attained high office under Napoleon as a soldier and civil servant; he then maintained an ambivalent relationship with the restored Bourbons, who eventually elevated him to the peerage as Baron de Gérando.

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