Paul Émile de Puydt

Paul Émile de Puydt (6th of March 1810– 28th of May 1891), a writer whose contributions included work in botany and economics, was born and died in Mons, Belgium. His brother is Remi de Puydt, a civil engineer, a politician (representative) and soldier in the Belgian army (colonel). (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remi_De_Puydt and http://www.unionisme.be/De_Puydt.htm). His father name was Jean Ambroise de Puydt (1758-1836), who was governor of the Province Hainaut in the early days of Belgium from 1830 till 1834. In the first marriage of his father there were 6 children. Paul-Emile was the second child of four children out of the second marriage of his father Jean Ambroise de PUYDT (1758-1836), who married in 1799 with Marie Adélaïde Jeanne MICHOT (ca 1777-1858). As a botanist, Paul Émile de Puydt notably wrote on orchids.^[1] The standard botanical author abbreviation De Puydt is applied to species he described.

As a political economist, he is known as inventor of the concept of people having the freedom to choose which government to join, and governments having to compete for citizens. He has given the name panarchy to this concept. His paper "PANARCHIE",^[2] was first published in French in the Revue Trimestrielle, in Brussels, July 1860. The notion of competitive government can also be found in the writings of the Belgian economist Gustave de Molinari.

Contents 1 Life 2 Works 2.1 Botany 2.2 Social sciences 2.3 Novels 2.4 Other publications 3 References

Life

Paul-Emile de Puydt married in 1841 with Fanie Catherine Cousin (1819-1905). They had one child Julien de Puydt (1842-1921).

Works

Botany

• Traité théorique et pratique de la culture des plantes de serre froide, orangerie et serre tempérées des jardiniers, précédé de notions pratiques de physiologie végétale et de physique horticole, et de conseils pour la construction des différentes serres. 1860
• Les Poires de Mons. 1860

• Les Plantes de serre, traité théorique et pratique de la culture de toutes les plantes qui demandent un abri sous le climat de la Belgique. 2 vols, 1866
• Les Orchidées, histoire iconographique, organographie, classification, géographie, collections, commerce, emploi, culture, avec une revue descriptive des espèces cultivées en Europe. Ouvrage orné de 244 vignettes et de 50 chromo-lithographies, dessinées d'après nature sous la direction de M. Leroy, dans les serres de M. Guibert,1880 [[4]]

Social sciences

• Panarchy, first published in French in the Revue Trimestrielle, Bruxelles, July 1860, page 222 to 245

http://books.google.es/books?id=8SIWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:NYPL33433081718599&hl=fr#v=onepage&q&f=false

• La Charité et les institutions de bienfaisance. 1867
• Marche et progrès de la civilisation dans les temps modernes. 1870
• La Grève. 1876
• La Littérature et les Arts, dans leurs rapports avec la morale. SOCIÉTÉ DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DU HAINAUT.TROISIÈME SÉRIE. TOME SEPTIÈME. ANNÉE 1871-1872.

Novels

• Chevreuse, roman. 1859
• Maudit métier, histoire du Borinage. 1883
• Cent mille francs de dot. 1890

Other publications

• Biographie de M. Jean-Ambroise De Puydt. 60 p.SOCIÉTÉ DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES DU HAINAUT. TROISIÈME SÉRIE. TOME HUITIÈME. ANNÉE 1872.

References

Persondata
Name	De Puydt, Paul Emile
Alternative names
Short description	writer
Date of birth	1810
Place of birth	Mons, Belgium
Date of death	1891
Place of death	Mons, Belgium