Jean Meuvret (1901–1971) was a historian of
early modern France.
He was a tutor at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure and was known in Europe and America for his pioneering studies of the French economy in the seventeenth century. His most important work, ''Le problème des subsistances á l'époque de
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
'', examines the corn economy of France during the
Old Regime.
Meuvret was interested in showing how historical conditions affected different networks of exchange in an early monetary economy.
References
* Robert William Fogel, ''The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100 Europe, America, and the Third World'', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
* Albert Soboul, "Jean Meuvret (1901-1971)", ''Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine'', T. 19e, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1972), pp. 1–5
1901 births
1971 deaths
20th-century French historians
French male non-fiction writers
20th-century French male writers
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