See also: Levasseur

Pierre Emile Levasseur , born with Paris the December 8th 1828 and dead the July 10th 1911, is a Historien, economist, statistician and Géographe French, wire of Victor Levasseur.

Raise National university in the promotion of Taine and Prévost-Paradol, it specializes in economic history.

After its thesis of doctorate in 1854 on the System of Law, it teaches with the college of Alençon in 1852, then becomes professor of Rhétorique to Besancon in 1857. It turns over then to Paris where it teaches with the Lycée Saint-Louis. In 1868, it is elected member of the Academy of Science morals and political. In 1871, it succeeds Henri Baudrillart with the Collège de France, where it occupies the pulpit of history of the economic doctrines, then of geography, history and statistics economic. He is then professor with the Conservatoire national of arts and trades and with the Private school of political sciences. He writes many works with some incursions into the field of the economic geography.

Member of the Council of the state education and honorary president of the Company of geography, it is one of the craftsmen of the reform of the teaching of the geography in the primary education and the secondary in 1872, but does not take part in the great movement of development of the university geography in France of the Années 1880. However, Levasseur is not reduced to this dimension programming science. Its geographical ideas are original and even “possibilists” before the letter. According to his theories, the man is the craftsman of his own destiny. Nature is only one instrument that the humanity, equipped with a tool as powerful as science, can dominate for maintenance of the “economic harmonies”.

In the field of the political economy, its historical studies on work and the working class as on the French population always preserve interest today. It was also one of the main adversaries of Leon Walras and of the School of Lausanne.

It signed in 1876 the first atlas set of themes worthy of this name which appeared in France.

Works

• 1854 : Thesis: Historical research on the System of Law
• 1858: the Question of gold
• 1859: History of the working classes in France since the conquest of Jules-César until the Revolution
• 1865: industrial France in 1789
• 1867: History of the working classes in France since the Revolution until our days
• 1871: the Study and the teaching of the geography
• 1879: Report/ratio of the Trade and Tonnage Relating to the Interoceanic Channel
• 1883: historical Summary of the teaching of the political economy and the statistics in France
• 1888: the Alps and the great rises
• 1889 - 1892: French Population
• 1890 - 1894: Large Atlas of physical and political geography
• 1893: Prices: outline of the economic history of the value and the income of the ground in France
• 1894: Agriculture in the United States
• 1895: industrial Questions and workers under IIIe Republic
• 1897: Primary school education dens civilized countries
• 1898: Of the method in the economic scenes
• 1898: the American Workman
• 1907: Labor questions and industrial under the third Republic
• 1903: Primary school education in the civilized countries
• 1911: History of the Trade of France