10 Facts About Victor d'Hupay

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Joseph Alexandre Victor d'Hupay was a French writer and philosopher.

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Victor d'Hupay is known for being perhaps the first writer to use the term communism in its modern sense.

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Victor d'Hupay wished to transform the ideals of the Enlightenment philosophers into practice.

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In 1746 Victor d'Hupay was born into an aristocratic family in the village of La Tour-d'Aigues in the Luberon, Provence.

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Victor d'Hupay believed agriculture to be the basis of wealth, and followed the physiocrat movement that advocated an economy based upon it just as Marquis de Mirabeau did.

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Victor d'Hupay followed the example of Baron de La Tour-d'Aigues, who was interested in land development and had one of the largest libraries of the time on this subject.

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Victor d'Hupay challenged the display of wealth of Bruny, and other barons, because he, as a follower of Rousseau, wanted a simpler more rural life away from the tumult of cities.

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Victor d'Hupay read Enlightenment philosophers, and wished to put their ideas into action.

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Victor d'Hupay presented several projects of national education and models of government to the National Assembly, and militated for the suppression of marriage, which he saw as a form of property owning.

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Victor d'Hupay wrote a little under the Empire and died at Fuveau in 1818, at the age of seventy-two.