The Man and the Statesman. Bastiat Frédéric

      THE MAN AND THE STATESMAN

      THE COLLECTED WORKS OF FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT

      Jacques de Guenin, General Editor

       The Man and the Statesman: The Correspondence and Articles on Politics

       “The Law,” “The State,” and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850

       Economic Sophisms and “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”

       Miscellaneous Works on Economics: From “Jacques-Bonhomme” to Le Journal des Économistes

       Economic Harmonies

       The Struggle Against Protectionism: The English and French Free-Trade Movements

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Contents

General Editor’s Note

Note on the Translation

Note on the Editions of the Œuvres Complètes

Acknowledgments

General Introduction, by Jacques de Guenin and Jean-Claude Paul-Dejean

Frédéric Bastiat Chronology

       Map of France Showing Cities Mentioned by Bastiat

       Map of Southwestern France

PART 1: Correspondence

Introduction to the Correspondence, by David M. Hart

Correspondence

       PART 2: Articles and Addresses

       SECTION 1: Articles of Biographical Interest

       1. Two Articles on the Basque Language

       2. Reflection on the Question of Dueling

       3. On the Bordeaux to Bayonne Railway Line

       4. Draft Preface for the Harmonies

       5. Anglomania, Anglophobia

       6. Proposition for the Creation of a School for Sons of Sharecroppers

       SECTION 2: Political Manifestos

       1. To the Electors of the Département of the Landes

       2. To the Electors of the District of Saint-Sever

       3. On Parliamentary Reform

       4. To the Electors of the Landes

       5. Letter to a Group of Supporters

       6. Political Manifestos of April 1849

       7. Letter on the Referendum for the Election of the President of the Republic

       SECTION 3: Electoral Principles

       1. Electoral Sophisms

       2. The Elections

       3. Fragment

       4. Letter to a Candidate

       5. Letter to Roger Dampierre

       SECTION 4: Articles on Politics

       1. On a New Secondary School to Be Founded in Bayonne

       2. Freedom of Teaching

       3. Freedom of Trade

       4. The Parisian Press

       5. Petition from an Economist

       6. Article in La République française

       7. The Scramble for Office

       8. Impediments and Taxes

       9. Freedom

       10. Laissez-faire

       11. Under the Republic

       12. On Disarmament

       13. The Kings Must Disarm

       14. Articles in La République française on the Political Situation

       15. To Citizens Lamartine and Ledru-Rollin

       16. Report Presented to the 1849 Session of the General Council of the Landes, on the Question of Common Land

       17. National Assembly

       18. Parliamentary Conflicts of Interest

       19. Parliamentary Reform

       20. Letter to an Ecclesiastic

       21. On Religion

       22. On the Separation of the Temporal and Spiritual Domains

       23. The Three Pieces of Advice

      Glossaries

       Glossary of Persons

       Glossary of Places

       Glossary of Subjects and Terms

       Appendix: List of the Correspondence by Recipient

       Bibliography of Primary Sources

       Index

General Editor’s Note