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Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) was a French economist, one of the creators of the laissez faire, laissez passer economic philosophy. Together with François Quesnay he headed the Physiocratic School. U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Daily analysis of economics in the news (UK focus) Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau... Laissez-faire is short for laissez faire, laissez passer, a French phrase meaning to let things alone, let them pass. First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade, it is now used as a synonym for strict free market economics. ... François Quesnay. ... The Physiocrats were a group of thinkers who believed in an economic theory which considered that the wealth of nations was derived solely from agriculture. ...


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Vincent obtained from the King and the city officials permission to turn an old square tower into a hospital for the sick galley salves who were lodged in the faubourg Saint-Honoré.
Vincent was there and several other women who were interested in the project at the Hôtel-Dieu: Isbeau Blondeau, the widow of Villesabin, Madame Dumecq, Marie Dalibray, widow of J.B. de Sinctot and Marie Lumague, the widow of Pollalion.
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