Claude Dupin

Biography

Originating in a former family of the Berry, Claude Dupin is the son of a receiver of the sizes of the town of Chateauroux. He makes his studies with the college of Blois and becomes lieutenant of infantry to the regiment of Noailles. In 1714, it takes again the load of his/her father. From a first marriage with the girl of notable of Chateauroux is born a son, Charles Louis (1716 - 1780) known as “Dupin de Francueil”, grandfather of George Sand.

In 1722, it meets the financial richissime Samuel Bernard which makes name it general receiver of finances of Metz and of Alsace (1722). He marries in second weddings the illegitimate girl of his guard, Louise-Marie-Madeleine Fontaine. It gives him a second wire, Jacques-Armand says “Dupin de Chenonceaux”.

In 1726, on a new intervention of Samuel Bernard and thanks to a loan of this one, it obtains one of the forty extremely lucrative places of farmer general. Named at an age appreciably lower than the average, it makes a career of thirty-six years within the general Farm. It is sent in round in the Kingdom during fourteen years and is member during nearly twelve years of the Committee of the cases, leading authority of the Farm. It is devoted particularly to the Control of the Tabac and the Control of large the Gabelle S, which will be worth to him to be solicited by Diderot and D' Alembert to write the article “Salines” of the Encyclopédie.

In 1728, it buys a load of Secretary of the King, who allows him to acquire the nobility in 1749, like his two sons.

One of the most sumptuous men of its time, Claude Dupin built an imposing fortune and asset of the prestigious properties:

the Hotel Lambert, in the island Saint-Louis with Paris, acquired in 1732 and resold in 1739 to honor the gambling debts with his/her son junior;
the Castle of Chenonceau and its dependences, bought on June 9th 1733 with the duke of Bourbon and remained in the Dupin family until in 1864;
the marquisat of the White, located at the borders of Berry and the Poitou, bought in 1738 with the countess of Parabère, old main of the Regent.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the private secretary of the wife of the financier of 1745 with 1751. It is at Claude Dupin that it composed the Discours on sciences and arts . It always remained in relation to the Dupin husbands whom it evokes in the Confessions .

Claude Dupin is the author of a political treaty of economy entitled Économiques , published in 1745. He recommends there in particular the interior freedom of circulation of the grains n the other hand of a regulation of the imports and exports according to the abundance of harvests.

Following the publication of Of the spirit of the laws of Montesquieu in 1748, Dupin, ulcerated by criticisms of the author against the general farm, published a virulent criticism entitled: Reflections on the Spirit of the laws . Reproaching the violence of the tone, it made some destroy the majority of the specimens and published then Observations on the Spirit of the laws , more moderate.

Works

Economic , 1745, 3 vol. in-4°
Memories on the corns , 1748
Reflections on the Spirit of the laws , 1749, 2 vol. in-8°
Observations on the Spirit of the Laws , 1757 - 1758, 3 vol. in-8°

External bond

Julie Ladant, the farmer general Claude Dupin (1686-1769) , Thesis Schools of the Charters, 2000 (summary)

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