1819–25
Works in Bayonne for his Uncle Monclar and assists his grandfather in running a farm at Souprosse in the Landes (estate called “Sengresse”).
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Joins a Masonic lodge, La Zélée. Becomes a garde des sceaux in 1822 and an orateur in 1823.
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Participates in a demonstration of young liberals in support of Jacques Laffite, September 1824.
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Gives lectures on literary, religious, philosophical, and economic topics.
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1825–30
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Death of grandfather, 13 August. Inherits part of his estate.
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Attempts unsuccessfully to modernize the practices of his tenants on his estate.
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Expresses a desire to write on the protectionist system in France.
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1830
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Participates in protests in Bayonne in favor of the new regime (the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe), 3–5 August.
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Visits Bayonne garrison and successfully persuades the officers to support the revolution, 5 August.
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[print edition page xliv]
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1831
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Marries Marie Clotilde Hiart, 7 February. Separates soon after; uses her dowry to expand his estate.
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Appointed justice of the peace in the canton of Mugron, 28 May.
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Unsuccessfully stands for election to the legislature of the arrondissement of Dax, 6 July.
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1832
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Unsuccessfully stands for election to the legislature in the arrondissement of Saint-Sever, 11 July.
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1833
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Elected to the General Council of the Landes, 17 November.
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1837
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Publishes five articles on a proposed canal next to the Ardour River.
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1838
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Publishes two articles on the Basque language.
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1839
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Reelected to the General Council of the Landes, 24 November.
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1840
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Travels to Spain and Portugal to explore setting up an insurance business.
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1841
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Has plans to create an “Association for the Defense of Viticultural Interests” and a journal to be called Le Midi (these do not come to fruition).
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1842
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Unsuccessfully stands for election to the legislature in the arrondissement of Saint-Sever, 9 July.
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1843
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Writes “Mémoire on the Viticulture Question,” 22 January.
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Plans to create a school for sharecroppers.
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Publishes three articles on “Free Trade. State of the Question in England” in La Sentinelle des Pyrénées, May / June.
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1844
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Publishes his first major essay in the JDE: “On the Influence of French and English Tariffs on the Future of the Two Peoples,” October.
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Begins corresponding with Richard Cobden, 24 November. Tells him he would like to start his own free-trade association in France.
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1845
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A dinner held in his honor by the Political Economy Society to welcome him to Paris, May.
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Travels to London, where he is met with enthusiasm by members of the Anti–Corn Law League, July.
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Publishes his first books: Cobden and the League (July 1845) and Economic Sophisms (First Series), November.
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[print edition page xlv]
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Supports de Larnac, the center-left candidate to the local legislature, August–September.
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Joins the Society for Political Economy and begins attending their monthly meetings when in Paris.
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Offered editorship of JDE but turns it down.
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1846
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Elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, 24 January.
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Cofounder of the Free Trade Association in Bordeaux, 23 February.
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10 May, National Association for Free Trade is formed in Paris, and Bastiat is made the secretary of the Advisory Board. Other Associations are established in Marseilles, Lyon, and Le Havre.
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Dinner in Paris to celebrate political victory of Cobden and the Anti–Corn Law League, 18 August.
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Speaks at free-trade meetings in Bordeaux (23 February) and Paris (29 September).
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Appearance of first issue of the weekly journal Le Libre-échange, 29 November.
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Resigns his position as justice of the peace in Mugron, 30 November.
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Debates with Lamartine and the editors of L’Atelier and Le Moniteur industriel.
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Publishes many articles on free trade in a number of journals.
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1847
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Chamber considers bill to liberalize tariffs and sends it to a committee dominated by protectionists, March to July.
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Begins lecturing on political economy at the School of Law in Paris, 3 July.
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Debates throughout the year with protectionists.
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1848
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Publication of Economic Sophisms (Second Series), 5 January.
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Gives up the editorship of Le Libre-échange for reasons of health, 13 February.
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Witnesses rioting in the streets of Paris and the killing of protesters by the army, 23–25 February.
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Publication of La République française, 26 February.
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Elected deputy in the Constituent Assembly representing the département of the Landes, 23 April. Appointed vice president of the Finance Committee.
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[print edition page xlvi]
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Nominated to the Chamber’s commission of inquiry into labor, May.
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Speech in the Chamber on free trade and against subsidies to the textile industry, 9 June.
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