Family Name: Plumard de Dangeul
First Name: Louis-Joseph
Birth Date: 1720
Birth Place: Le Mans
Death Date: 1775
Personal info:
Career

The economist Plumard de Dangeul was from a family of textile industrialists in Le Mans known throughout Europe, and was Forbonnais̓s first cousin. Between 1754 and 1757 he was Maître des comptes in the French royal household. From 1752 to 1758  he visited several regions of Europe, acting as an information agent, or spy, on behalf of the French Government (Forbonnais to Hennin, 11 September, 1758, Bibliothèque de l'Institut, ms 1259, f. 286). In 1752 he was in Scotland and in 1754 in Sweden; in 1757 we find him in Hamburg, intending to go to Vienna, St. Petersburg and Moscow; in 1758 he was in Naples, where he met Genovesi. He was a member of both the Académie d'Angers and of the Stockholm Academy, and on 8 May 1757 he was elected to the Académie de Stanislas in Nancy. 


Translations Other Works

translations activities

Dangeul’s translations were integral parts of Gournay’s campaign to promote political economy as a key subject of public debate. In 1753 he translated Ulloa̓s Restablecimiento, while in 1754 he adapted into French Josiah Tucker̓s Brief Essay (1750), under the title Remarques sur les avantages et les désavantages de la France et la Grande Bretagne, par rapport au Commerce, & aux autres sources de la puissance des états, presented as a translation from an English work by a certain John Nickolls.

secondary bibliography references

Franco Venturi, Settecento riformatore, Vol. I, Da Muratori a Beccaria, Einaudi, Torino 1969, p. 570

Simone Meyssonier, La Balance et l'Horloge. La genèse de la pensée libérale en France au XVIIIe siècle, Les Éditions de la Passion, Montreuil 1989, p. 180, p. 211, pp. 228-229 and pp. 252-254.

John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution, Cornell University Press, Ithaca/London, 2007, pp. 46-47

Koen Stapelbroek, "Economic Reform and Neutrality in Dutch Political Pamphlets (1741-1779)", in Femke Deen, Michel Reinders, David Onnekink (eds.), Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic, Brill, Leiden/Boston 2011, pp. 197-200

Loic Charles, Frédéric Lefebvre et Christine Théré (éds.), Le cercle de Vincent de Gournay. Savoirs économiques et pratiques administratives en France au milieu du 18. siècle, Ined, Paris 2011, pp. 80-81

Niccolò Guasti, ”Véron de Forbonnais and Plumard de Dangeul as Translators of Uztáriz and Ulloa”, History of European Ideas, 40:8 (2014), pp. 1067-1086

The History of Economic Thought Website: http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/profiles/angeul.htm [15.01.2019]


Translations

  • Restablecimiento de las fábricas y comercio español

  • Translation Title: Rétablissement des manufactures et du commerce d’Espagne
  • Original Author: Bernardo de Ulloa
  • Original title: Restablecimiento de las fábricas y comercio español
  • Publ. Year From: 1739 to:
  • lang: Spanish
  • Translation: Rétablissement des manufactures et du commerce d’Espagne
  • Pub. Place: Amsterdam
  • Pub. Date: 1752
  • Lang: French
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