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• The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat Volume 1
• General Editor’s Note
• Note On the Translation
• Note On the Editions of the Œuvres Complètes
• Acknowledgments
• General Introduction
• Frédéric Bastiat Chronology
• Part 1: Correspondence
• Introduction to the Correspondence
• Correspondence 1
• (1819-1834) 1.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 2.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 3.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 4.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 5.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 6.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 7.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 8.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 9.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 10.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 11.: Letter to Félix Coudroy 9
• 12.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 13.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 14.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 15.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 16.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 17.: Letter to Félix Coudroy 26
• 18.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 19.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 20.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• (1840-1844) 21.: Letter to Félix Coudroy 38
• 22.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 23.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 24.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 25.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 26.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 27.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 28.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 29.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 30.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 31.: Letter to A. M. Laurence
• 32.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 33.: Letter to Horace Say
• (1845) 34.: Letter to Charles Dunoyer, Member of the Institute 68
• 35.: Letter to Alphonse De Lamartine
• 36.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 37.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 38.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 39.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 40.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 41.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 42.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 43.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 44.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 45.: Letter to Mr. Paulton
• 46.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 47.: Letter to [d.] Potonié 104
• 48.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 49.: Letter to Alcide Fonteyraud
• (1846) 50.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 51.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 52.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 53.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 54.: Letter to Victor Calmètes
• 55.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 56.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 57.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 58.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 59.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 60.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 61.: Letter to Félix Coudroy.
• 62.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 63.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 64.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 65.: Letter to Mr. Richard Cobden
• 66.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 67.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 68.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 69.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 70.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 71.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 72.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 73.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 74.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 75.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• (1847) 76.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 77.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 78.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 79.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 80.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 81.: Letter to Félix Coudroy.
• 82.: Letter to Horace Say
• 83.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 84.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• (1848) 85.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 86.: Letter to Mrs. Schwabe
• 87.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 88.: Letter to Mrs. Schwabe
• 89.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 90.: Letter to Mrs. Schwabe
• 91.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 92.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 93.: Letter to Marie-julienne Badbedat (mme Marsan)
• 94.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 95.: Letter to Bernard Domenger In Mugron
• 96.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 97.: Letter to Horace Say
• 98.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 99.: Letter to Mrs. Schwabe
• 100.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 101.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 102.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 103.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 104.: Letter to Julie Marsan (mme Affre)
• 105.: Letter to Mr. Schwabe
• 106.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 107.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 108.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 109.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 110.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 111.: Letter to Mr. Schwabe
• 112.: Letter to Mr. Schwabe
• 113.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 114.: Letter to Mrs. Schwabe
• 115.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 116.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 117.: Letter to the Count Arrivabene 237
• 118.: Letter to Mrs. Schwabe
• (1849) 119.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 120.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 121.: Letter to George Wilson, Chairman of the Anti-corn Law League 240
• 122.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 123.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 124.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 125.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 126.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 127.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 128.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 129.: Letter to Mrs. Schwabe
• 130.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 131.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 132.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 133.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 134.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 135.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 136.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 137.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 138.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 139.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 140.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 141.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 142.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 143.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 144.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 145.: Letter to M. Cheuvreux
• 146.: Letter to Horace Say
• 147.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 148.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 149.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 150.: Letter to Mrs. Schwabe
• 151.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 152.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 153.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 154.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 155.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 156.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 157.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• (1850) 158.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 159.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 160.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 161.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 162.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 163.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 164.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 165.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 166.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 167.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 168.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 169.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 170.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 171.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 172.: Letter to Horace Say
• 173.: Letter to Louise Cheuvreux
• 174.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 175.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 176.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 177.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 178.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 179.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 180.: Letter to M. De Fontenay 344
• 181.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 182.: Letter to Horace Say.
• 183.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 184.: Letter to M. Cheuvreux
• 185.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 186.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 187.: Letter to the President of the Peace Congress In Frankfurt 353
• 188.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 189.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 190.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 191.: Letter to Louise Cheuvreux
• 192.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 193.: Letter to M. Cheuvreux
• 194.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 195.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 196.: Letter to Bernard Domenger
• 197.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 198.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 199.: Letter to Richard Cobden
• 200.: Letter to Horace Say
• 201.: Letter to the Count Arrivabene
• 202.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 203.: Letter to Félix Coudroy
• 204.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 205.: Letter to Mr. Domenger
• 206.: Letter to Prosper Paillottet
• 207.: Letter to Mme Cheuvreux
• 208.: Letter From Prosper Paillottet to Mme Cheuvreux 384
• 209.: Letter to Le Journal Des économistes 385
• Part 2: Articles and Addresses
• Section 1: Articles of Biographical Interest
• 1.: Two Articles On the Basque Language
• 2.: Reflection On the Question of Dueling (report) 2
• 3.: On the Bordeaux to Bayonne Railway Line
• 4.: Draft Preface For the Harmonies
• 5.: Anglomania, Anglophobia
• 6.: Proposition For the Creation of a School For Sons of Sharecroppers
• Section 2: Political Manifestos 1
• 1.: To the Electors of the Département of the Landes 2
• 2.: To the Electors of the District of Saint-sever
• 3.: On Parliamentary Reform
• 4.: To the Electors of the Landes
• 5.: Letter to a Group of Supporters
• 6.: Political Manifestos of April 1849
• 7.: Letter On the Referendum For the Election of the President of the Republic
• Section 3: Electoral Principles
• 1.: Electoral Sophisms
• 2.: The Elections
• 3.: Fragment
• 4.: Letter to a Candidate
• 5.: Letter to Roger Dampierre
• Section 4: Articles On Politics
• 1.: On a New Secondary School to Be Founded In Bayonne
• 2.: Freedom of Teaching
• 3.: Freedom of Trade
• 4.: The Parisian Press
• 5.: Petition From an Economist
• 6.: Article In La République Française
• 7.: The Scramble For Office
• 8.: Impediments and Taxes
• 9.: Freedom
• 10.: Laissez-faire
• 11.: Under the Republic 25
• 12.: On Disarmament 29
• 13.: The Kings Must Disarm
• 14.: Articles In La République Française On the Political Situation 35
• 15.: To Citizens Lamartine and Ledru-rollin
• 16.: Report Presented to the 1849 Session of the General Council of the Landes, On the Question of Common Land
• 17.: National Assembly
• 18.: Parliamentary Conflicts of Interest
• 19.: Parliamentary Reform
• 20.: Letter to an Ecclesiastic
• 21.: On Religion 49
• 22.: On the Separation of the Temporal and Spiritual Domains (an Unpublished Outline)
• 23.: The Three Pieces of Advice
• Glossary of Persons
• Glossary of Places
• Glossary of Subjects and Terms
• Bibliography of Primary Sources
• Works By Bastiat
• Published Sources For This Edition
• Major Pamphlets and Essays Mentioned In the Text and Notes
• Primary Sources By Other Authors Cited In the Text and the Notes

14.

Letter to Félix Coudroy

Bayonne, 3 December 1827.

[vol. 1, p. 20]

. . . You are encouraging me to carry out my project, and I do not think I have ever in my life been so determined. From the start of 1828, I will use my time in removing the obstacles, the most considerable of which are pecuniary. Going to England, renovating my house, purchasing the livestock, instruments, and books I need, organizing the financing for wages and seed, all for a small sharecropping farm (because I want to start with just one), I feel will carry me a bit far. It is clear to me that in the first two or three years, my agriculture will not produce much, both because of my inexperience and because the crop rotation I propose to adopt will show its full effect only in due course. However, I am very happy with my situation since, if I did not have enough to live on and a bit more from my little property, it would be impossible to undertake such an enterprise; for as I can sacrifice the income from my property, if need be, nothing prevents me from doing what I want. I read books on agriculture and nothing equals the beauty of this working life, because it has everything, but it requires knowledge that is foreign to me, such as natural history, chemistry, mineralogy, mathematics, and many other things.

Farewell, my dear Félix, good luck and return soon.