Jean-Pierre Clément (2 June 1809 – 8 November 1870; known as Pierre Clément) was a French political economist and historian, born at

Draguignan Draguignan (; ) is a commune in the Var department in the administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (formerly Provence), southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department and self-proclaimed "capital of Artillery" an ...

. He was in the Ministry of Finance and a member of the

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and wrote, with the aid of original documents, works on French financial administration, particularly in the epoch of Colbert, including: *''Histoire de la vie et de l'administration de Colbert'' (1846) *''Histoire du systéme protecteur en France depuis Colbert jusqu'à la révolution de 1848'' (1854) *''Etudes financières et d'economie sociale'' (1859) *''Lettres, instructions, et Mémoires de Colbert'' (seven volumes, 1861–1882) Clément's prefaces to the last work were collected and edited by his widow under the title ''Histoire de Colbert et de son administration'' (1874; third edition, 1892) Clément was an early member of the

Société d'économie politique The Société d’Economie Politique () is a French learned society concerned with political economy. It was founded in 1842 to provide a forum for discussion of free trade, a subject of violent debate at the time, and has continued to organize dis ...

organized by

Pellegrino Rossi Pellegrino Luigi Odoardo Rossi (13 July 1787 – 15 November 1848) was an Italian economist, politician and jurist. He was an important figure of the July Monarchy in France, and the minister of justice in the government of the Papal States, unde ...

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