The man and the statesman : the correspondence and articles on politics / Frédéric Bastiat ; translated from the French by Jane Willems and Michel Willems, with an introduction by Jacques de Guenin and Jean-Claude Paul-Dejean ; annotations and glossaries by Jacques de Guenin and David M. Hart.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CORRESPONDENCE -- ARTICLES OF BIOGRAPHICAL INTEREST. Two articles on the Basque language -- Reflection on the question of dueling -- On the Bordeaux to Bayonne Railway line -- Draft preface for the Harmonies -- Anglomania, Anglophobia -- Proposition for the creation of a school for sons of sharecroppers. POLITICAL MANIFESTOS. To the electors of the department of the Landes -- To the electors of the district of Saint-Sever -- On parliamentary reform -- To the electors of the Landes -- Letter to a group of supporters -- Political manifestos of April 1849 -- Letter on the referendum for the election of the president of the Republic. ELECTORAL PRINCIPLES. Electoral sophisms -- The elections -- Fragment -- Letter to a candidate -- Letter to Roger Dampierre. ARTICLES ON POLITICS. On a new secondary school to be founded in Bayonne -- Freedom of teaching -- Freedom of trade -- The Parisian press -- Petition for an economist -- Article in La Republique française -- The scramble for office -- Impediments and taxes -- Freedom -- Laissez-faire -- Under the republic -- On disarmament -- The kings must disarm -- Articles in La Republique française on the political situation -- To citizens Lamartine and Ledru-Rollin -- Report presented to the 1849 session of the general council of the Landes, on the question of common land -- National assembly -- Parliamentary conflicts of interest -- Parliamentary reform -- Letter to an Ecclesiastic -- On religion -- On the separation of the temporal and spiritual domains -- The three pieces of advice.

The main source for this translation is the seven-volume "Oeuvres completes de Frederic Bastiat", published in the 1850s and 1860s. The present volume, most of which has never before been translated into English, includes Bastiat's complete correspondence: 208 letters Bastiat wrote between 1819, when he was only 18 years old, until just a few days before his untimely death in 1850 at the age of 49. For contemporary classical liberals, Bastiat's correspondence will provide a unique window into a long-forgotten world where opposition to war and colonialism went hand-in-hand with support for free trade and deregulation. Bastiat's numerous letters to Richard Cobden, a Member of Parliament and best known today as the leader of the British Anti-Corn Law League, chronicle the profound effect the Anti-Corn League had on Bastiat. The League's success in mobilising a popular movement in England to pressure the British government into abolishing the very protectionist 'corn laws' in 1846, inspired Bastiat to emulate the League's success in France by starting his own free-trade movement. This volume also includes articles and other writings on politics and current events that showcase Bastiat's talent as a theoretician, a pamphleteer, a journalist, and a deputy (Member of Parliament) of the nascent French Second Republic. Together with the correspondence, the writings in this volume fill an important gap in our understanding of the lesser-known Bastiat, who, in just a few short years, made a profound impact on French intellectual and political life in Paris.

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