- Yves Guyot
Yves Guyot (
September 6 ,1843 - 1928) was a Frenchpolitician andeconomist .He was born at
Dinan . Educated alRennes , he took up the profession ofjournalism , coming toParis in 1867. He was for a short period editor-in-chief of "L'Independent du midi" ofNîmes , but joined the staff of "Le Rappel" on its foundation, and worked subsequently on other journals.He took an active part in municipal life, and waged a keen campaign against the prefecture of police, for which he suffered six months' imprisonment. He entered the chamber of deputies in 1885 as representative of the
Ier arrondissement of Paris and was rap porleur general of the budget of 1888. He became minister of public works under the premiership of PE Tirard in 1889, retaining his portfolio in the cabinet ofCharles de Freycinet until 1892.Although of strong liberal views, he lost his seat in the election of 1893 owing to his
militant attitude againstsocialism . An uncompromisingfree-trade r, he published the following works:
*"La Comédie protectionniste" (1905; Eng. trans. "The Comedy of Protection")
*"La Science économique" (1st ed. 1881; 3rd ed. 1907)
*"La Prostitution" (1882)
*"La Tyrannie socialiste" (1893), all three translated into English
*"Les Conflits du travail et leur solution" (1903)
*"La Démocratie individualiste" (1907).References
*1911
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