Nicolas Baudeau
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Nicolas Baudeau was a Catholic
Catholic
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 cleric, theologian and economist
Economist
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, who was born in Amboise
Amboise
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, France
France
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, on 25 April 1730. In 1765 he founded the first economics periodical to be published in France, Éphémérides du citoyen, and was at first an opponent of the physiocrats
Physiocrats
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. Later on however he became a proponent. He died in Paris
Paris
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 in 1792.

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