Henri Joseph Leon Baudrillart, a French political economist, born in Paris, Nov. 28, 1821. He published essays on Voltaire (1844), Turgot (1846), and Madame de Stael (1850), and in 1853 a work on Jean Bodin et aon tempa, for which the academy awarded him the first Mon-thyon prize. Since 1855 he has been chief editor of the Journal dea economistea. He is also connected with the Journal des Debats, having married in 1866 the daughter of its chief editor, M. de Sacy; and he was editor-in-chief of the Conatitutionnel in 1868 and 1869. In 1866 he was appointed professor of the history of political economy in the college de France. He is a writer for the principal cyclopaedias, for the Revue dea Deux-Mondes, and other periodicals, and is the author of many works relating to political economy, moral science, spiritualism, and the progress of the laboring classes and of trades unions. His Manuel d'economic politique (1857) obtained from the French academy the Monthyon prize, and his Dea rapports de la morale et de Veco-nomie politique (1860) received a prize medal.

Among his other works are: Etudes de philoao-phie morale et d'economie politique (2 vols., 1858); La liberte du travail, l'aaaociation et la democratic (1865); and Elements d'economie rurale, induatrielle et commerciale (1867).