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Say, JEAN BAPTISTE, born at Lyons in 1767 of Protestant parents, was educated in England for a business career, but returned to France as secretary to the finance minister, Claviere, who directed his mind to the study of political economy. During the Revolutionary period he was an active journalist and politician. In 1800 he published Olbie, an essay on reform, and in 1803 his Treatise on Political Eoonomy. Under the Empire he devoted his energies to the cotton trade, but after the peace became professor, first at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers and later at the College de France. His Letters to Malthus and Course of Political Economy appeared in his later years. He died in 1832. His grandson, the well-known French politician, M. Leon Say, was born in 1826, and died in 1896.