Background
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play was born at La Riviere-Saint- Sauveur (Calvados) on the April 11, 1806, the son of a custom-house official.
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Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play was born at La Riviere-Saint- Sauveur (Calvados) on the April 11, 1806, the son of a custom-house official.
Le Play was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique, and from there passed into the State Department of Mines.
In 1834 Le Play was appointed head of the permanent committee of mining statistics, and in 1840 engineer-in-chief and professor of metallurgy at the school of mines, where he became inspector in 1848. For nearly a quarter of a century Le Play spent his vacations travelling in the various countries of Europe, and collected a vast quantity of material bearing upon the social condition of the working classes. In 1856, Le Play founded the Société internationale des études pratiques d'économie sociale, which has devoted its energies principally to forwarding social studies on the lines laid down by its founder. The journal of the society, La Réforme Sociale, founded in 1881, is published fortnightly.
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Initially an atheist, Le Play gradually became convinced of the need for religion. In 1864, he published an essay defending Christianity against Darwinism and Scepticism. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1879, three years before his death.
Blum (2004) included Le Play in his anthology of French counter-revolutionary thinkers.