Jean Meuvret, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean Meuvret

French historian and university teacher (1901-1971)

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1901

Place of Birth: Saint-Florentin, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1971

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Jean Meuvret (1901–1971) was a historian of early modern France.
He was a tutor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and was known in Europe and America for his pioneering studies of the French economy in the seventeenth century.
His most important work, Le problème des subsistances á l'époque de Louis XIV, examines the corn economy of France during the Old Regime. Meuvret was interested in showing how historical conditions affected different networks of exchange in an early monetary economy.