Gabriel Bonnet Abbé de Mably

1709 - 1785

About the Author

The Abbé de Mably (1709-1785) was the brother of Condillac and a noted French political writer of republican sympathies who thought the state should redistribute wealth of the grounds of equality.

In The Library:

• author: Remarks concerning the Government and Laws of the United States of America: in Four Letters addressed to Mr. Adams (1785)

Quotations:

• The Abbé de Mably argues with John Adams about the dangers of a “commercial elite” seizing control of the new Republic and using it to their own advantage (1785) (5 October, 2009)