Background
Pierre Émile Levasseur was born on the 8th of December, 1828 in Paris, France.
Pierre Émile Levasseur was born on the 8th of December, 1828 in Paris, France.
Pierre Émile Levasseur was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Pierre began to teach in the lycee at Alenpon in 1852, and in 1857 was chosen professor of rhetoric at Besanfon.
He returned to Paris to become professor at the lycee Saint Louis, and in 1868 he was chosen a member of the academy of moral and political sciences.
In 1872 Pierre Émile Levasseur was appointed professor of geography, history and statistics in the College dc France, and subsequently became also professor at the Conservatoire des arts et metiers and at the Ecole libre des sciences politiques. Levasseur was one of the founders of the study of commercial geography, and became a member of the Council of Public Instruction, president of the French society of political economy and honorary president of the French geographical society.
His numerous writings include: Histoire des classes ouvrieres en France depuis la conquete de Jules Cesar jusqu'd la Revolution (1859); Histoire des classes ouvrieres en France depuis la Revolution jusqu'd nos jours (1867); L'Etude et Venseignement. de la geographic.
Pierre Émile Levasseur was known as the author of numerous works, primarily on the economic history of France, written from the standpoint of the school of vulgar political economy. His works portray capitalism in apologetic terms, but they are valuable for the large amount of factual material that they contain.
