DUNOYER, Charles.

Paris, Guillaumin et cie, 1949. 8vo. xv,+ (blank),+ 238,+ (2) pp. Foxing. Worn contemporary black half calf with gilt spine and marbled edges. From the library of Nils S. von Koch at Augerum. First edition of the liberal economist Charles Dunoyer’s critical book on the revolution of 1848. Charles Barthélemy Pierre Dunoyer (1786-1862) was a French lawyer and liberal economist. He collaborated with Charles Comte (1782-1837) during the Bourbon restoration. They founded and co-edited the French liberal journal ”Le censeur” in its two incarnations, the first from 1814-15, when it was interrupted by political difficulties, and again in 1817-19. In 1832 Dunoyer became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques of the Institut de France and he was an early member of the Société d'économie politique, organized in 1842 by Pellegrino Rossi. His most important work was ”Liberté du travail” (1845). He took a active part in the revolution 1830 and become during the July monarchy a member of the Conseil d'État. When the 1848 revolution broke out Dunoyer was in the Chamber of Deputies and he made known his opposition to the revolution, as expressed in ”La révolution du 24 février”. As a liberal he objected to the policies of economic intervention which in his view bordered dangerously on socialism. He was however not sacked from his post as a member of the Conseil d'État after 1848 but he resigned after the Coup d'état by Napoleon III in December 1851 because it violated the constitution as he saw it. (See Hart, David M, ”The Radical Liberalism of Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer” 2003.) Nils S. von Koch (1801-81) was an influential Swedish liberal jurist and politician, married to Francis Eliza Lewin from England. He was very engaged in the social questions of his time; education, penalty laws and prisons, voting rights etc.