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...vicomte G. d'Avenel delivered the first of the Hyde lectures yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre. The next lecture will be given in the same place tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock...
...introducing the speaker Professor Wendell '77 gave a short outline of M. d'Avenel's career as an economist, concluding with the statement that he is the first lecturer to set forth the great economic changes which affect France today...
...Avenel in his lectures will deal with the economic history of France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The following is a list of the remaining lectures...
...Avenel began his career as secretary of the Departmental and Communal Administration in the Ministry of the Interior, but soon left public life to devote his attention to research work in economics. He is well known as the historian of the "Economic Life and Material Civilization of France from 1200 to the Present Day," in which he made elaborate tables showing the cost price of everything in the period treated. Some of these tables have been published in four large volumes by the French Ministry of Public Instruction, and have been twice awarded the Prix Rossi by the Academie...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. I. "Les decouvertes dues a la nouvelle histoire economique et privee. M. le vicomte Georges d'Avenel. Sanders Theatre...