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Relecture de la Restauration

Francis Démier

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Reading over the Restauration The archives of the great economic institutions allow us to think that from as early as 1814, the restored monarchy fully asserted the idea of nation. Thanks to the economic stake of modernisation, the nation could find its true identity in a peaceful Europe. The influence of Jean-Baptiste Say remains limited to Paris. The economists of the nation are liberals attached to the market such as Chaptal, Dutens, Tollenare. They elaborated a synthesis of Colbert and Smith: the market must be defined in the political frame of the nation which itself definies a new conception of economic geography in France. Consequently, the aim would be to allow greatest economic liberty and the greatest protection of production inside national boundaries. From the 1820s, protectionism, of which certain main lines were defined by the manufacturers, clearly undertakes a new mission: to revalue agricultural prices and land rent. In this way, the 1814 project of an economy-nation articulated around the Manufactury, which should have given back to France its status of political power alongside England, diverts itself towards a singular drift.

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Francis Démier, “Relecture de la Restauration”Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle [Online], 10 | 1994, Online since 09 September 2008, connection on 17 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rh19/77; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rh19.77

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