See also: Mirabeau

Victor Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau , is an aristocrat and economist French born with Pertuis in 1715 and died with Argenteuil in 1789.

The marquis was the first of his family to forsake the military career to move towards that of the letters. Wanting “to make of a family of Provence, a family of France”, therefore to appear at the Court, it decided to buy a Private mansion in Paris and a castle in Bignon, in Gâtinais. In 1743, its marriage with Marie-Genevieve de Vassan, originating in the Limousin, enabled him to test on the grounds of his wife “her agronomic theories”.

It belonged to the school of the physiocrats and in particular published the Friend of the men or Treaty on the population (1756) and especially " Rural philosophy or general economy and policy of l´agriculture, reduced to l´ordre immutable of the physical laws and morals which ensure the prosperity of the empires" (1763).

He is the father of the count de Mirabeau and the Viscount of Mirabeau, both Politicien S of the French revolution.