Rene Stourm

Rene Stourm (1837-1917) is a French administrator, member of the Institut.

Biography

Wire of Auguste-African Stourm, senator of the Paddle under the Second empire, it is one of the founder member of the Institut of Political Studies of Paris. Perpetual secretary of the Academy of Science Morals and Political. Fall to Bercenay-in-Othe. (note to be supplemented).

Born under Monarchy from July, Rene Stourm enters in 1856 the administration of finances to which his/her father belonged, senator of the second Empire. He becomes tax inspector in 1861 and, of 1867 to 1870, principal private secretary of the Minister for Finance Pierre Magne. In 1874, he becomes administrator of the indirect taxation and ends up being put rather brutally of availability during the resumption in hand of the administration by the republicans.

He devotes himself then to the publication of historical studies of the French financial system with Finances of the Old Mode and the Revolution (1882).

The founder of the Private school of political sciences, Emile Boutmy, proposes to him in 1885 the pulpit of the public finances, previously occupied by Paul Leroy-Beaulieu then Alfred de Foville. He defends the same orthodoxe approach there, resting on the reasonableness of the tax levy and the balance in the budget. He gives up teaching only in 1913, year during which he is named (succeeding still Foville deceased) perpetual secretary of the Academy of Science morals and political, where he was elected in 1896 with the 5th armchair of the IV section (Economy political, statistical and finances), succeeding Leon Say. He chairs the commission of the funds and the central administrative commission of the Institute of France in 1911. Affected by the loss of one of its sons at the time of the First World War, physically weakened (it is then eighty years old), it dies suddenly Sunday evening December 23rd, 1917. He is the grandfather of the physicist Louis Leprince-Ringuet.

Quotations

“As a whole, in its essential provisions, the law of 1790 the land tax is attached by continuous and manifest bonds to the past. It is not to decrease its merit only to thus judge it. One creates only while improving: nothing leaves, strictly speaking, of nothing. Far thus seeking to dissimulate the loans which the constituent assembly made with the former modes, it should be congratulated to have had wisdom to prolong the era of progress which she found open. In this way, so of the revolutionary events had not upset the company, it would have managed to complete the administrative transformation of the country, transformation necessary to its safety, which the great minds of the end of the eighteenth century foresaw”

Finances of the Old Mode and the Revolution, origins of the current financial system, vol.1, p. 165

In connection with Rene Stourm, Edouard Montpetit, founder of the School of Social sciences of the University of Montreal: “I took all to him: its knowledge, its experiment, its expression, its method. And my books swarmed with notes suitable to inform me on the secrecy of this word full and sober on the reasons of this penetrating clearness. ”

Works

Stourm (R.), origins of the current financial system published with the Review of France, Paris, Printing works of the public limit company of periodic publications, 1880,88 p.
Finances of the Old Mode and the Revolution, origins of the current financial system, Paris, Guillaumin, 1882,2 vol.
the tax on alcohol in the principal countries, Paris, Shepherd-Levrault, 1886,211 p.
Course of finances: The Budget, its history and its mechanism, Paris, Guillaumin, 1889, III 655 p. ED., 1891, XI-623 p., 3rd ED., 1896, XI-653 p., 4th ED. 1900, XII-653 p., 5th ED., 1906, XVI-653 p., 6th ED., 1909, XVI-623 p., 7th ED., 1913, XV-621 p.
general Systems of taxes, Paris, Guillaumin, 1893, XV-415 p. 1900, VI-430 p. and 1912, VIII-439 historical p.
Bibliography of finances of France of the XVIIIe century, Paris, Guillaumin, 1895, III-341 p.
the French system of taxes of the " Review of Paris" , May 15th, 1897, Paris, impr. of Chaix, 1897,22 p.
French Finances, 2nd ED, Paris, Defense committee and social progress, Conference n° 23 of the social Reform, 1898,21 p.
financial Histoire of the Consulate, Paris, Guillaumin, 1902,363 p.

Sources

http://www.archiv.umontreal.ca/exposition/montpetit/etudes/etudes.htm
http://www.sffp.asso.fr/finances_publiques/finances_publiques/stourm.htm

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