Étienne-François de Sénovert

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Étienne-François de Sénovert (2 July 1753 – 22 September 1831) was a French military engineer and economist.

Biography

Étienne-François de Sénovert was born in Toulouse,[1] the son of François-Ignace de Sénovert[2], a lawyer at the parliament of Toulouse, and his wife Marie-Jeanne de Lavaysse (1728–1777),[3] the daughter of a lawyer in the same parliament. The couple had three children: Antoine-Christophe, his older brother, born in 1747, who would become an artillery officer,[4] and a sister, Alexandrine-Marie-Sophie, who married Georges Bergasse de Laziroules at the age of 25 on July 29, 1793.[5]

Like his brother, Étienne-François de Sénovert chose a military career. To this end, he continued his studies in Paris at the academic boarding school in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, run by the widow Berthaud and her son-in-law, in order to prepare for the entrance exam to the Royal Engineering School of Mézières. After a failure in December 1772, 23rd out of 66, he took the exam again at the end of 1773 and obtained a place of 10th out of 61, which opened the door to the school in January 1774. One of his classmates was the future general Carnot de Feulins and his teacher was Gaspard Monge. Although he produced an outstanding dissertation at the end of his studies, his graduation ranking in 1876 did not allow him to be appointed to one of the available officer positions.[4] He joined the Corps of Royal Engineers on January 2, 1777,[1] but he had to wait until April 30, 1777 to leave the school with the rank of midshipman.[6]

On November 12, 1780, Étienne-François de Sénovert obtained the rank of first lieutenant. The young soldier was posted to Dunkirk in 1780, to the island of Aix in 1782 and to Grenoble the following year. He preferred business and political economy. While in Port-Louis, he intervened with the Navy so that a ship, the Dauphin, which was in Lorient at the time, would be allowed to sail to China. He used his connections to promote the business of shipowners and merchants. After three years in Morbihan, he joined the Carcassonne garrison in 1786. He joined the Freemasonry and was registered at the Parfaite Amitié Lodge in Toulouse. Appointed Captain in 1788, he returned to Paris in 1789.[7]

He resigned from the Corps on April 1, 1791.

During the revolutionary period, Sénovert was noted as an economist who translated into French, commented on and published the main works of political economy by John Law of Lauriston and James Denham-Steuart.[1]

In 1806, he emigrated to Russia.[1]

In 1831, Étienne-François de Sénovert, old and sick, was repatriated to France where he died a few weeks after his return,[8] on September 22, 1831 in Honfleur.[1]

See also

Works

  • Recherche des Principes de l'Économie Politique ou Essai sur la Science de la Police Intérieure des Nations Libres: Dans lequel on traite spécialement de la population, de l'agriculture, du commerce, de l'industrie, du numéraire, des espèces monnoyés, de l'intérêt de l'argent, de la circulation des banques, du change, du crédit public, et des impots. Par le chevalier Jacques Steuart, baronnet (1789–90; 5 volumes; translator)
  • Theorie et Pratique des Assignats (1790)
  • Œuvres de J. Law, Contrôleur-général des Finances de France, sous le Régent: Contenant les principes sur le numéraire, le commerce, le crédit et les banques (1790; editor)

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Gouzévitch, D. & I. Gouzévitch (1996).
  2. ↑ Born "seigneur de Cintre en Vivarais" in Tournon, 1723.
  3. ↑ Bost, Lauriel & Angliviel de La Beaumelle (2007), p. 78.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Birembaut (1957), p. 153.
  5. ↑ Bergasse (1990), p. 286.
  6. ↑ Birembaut (1957), p. 153–54.
  7. ↑ Birembaut (1957), p. 154.
  8. ↑ Gouzévitch, D. & I. Gouzévitch (2011), § 9.

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