BAUDRILLART, HENRI JOSEPH LEON (1821 1892), French political economist, was born in Paris. His father, Jacques Joseph (17 74-183 2 ), was a distinguished writer on for estry. Henri was professor of economic history at the University of Paris from 1866 onwards, and from 1881 professor of political economy at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees. His first work was an Eloge de Turgot (1846), which at once won him notice among the economists. In 1853 he published an erudite work on Jean Bodin et son temps; then in 1857 a Manuel d'economie politique; in 186o, Des rapports de la morale et de l'economie politique; in 1865, La Liberte du travail; and from 1878 to 188o, L'Histoire du luxe ... depuis l'antiquite jusqu'a nos fours, in four volumes. At the instance of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques he investigated the condition of the farming classes of France, and published the results in four volumes (1885, et seq.). He was editor of the Constitutionnel, and later, 1855-64, of the Journal des economistes.