Dunoyer was born in
Carennac,
Quercy (now in
Lot). In 1814, he had founded together with
Charles Comte the journal
Le Censeur, a platform for liberal ideas. Dunoyer would also publish a variety of books on political economy, among them
De la Liberté du travail (
On the Freedom of Labour, 1845). Dunoyer was an early member of the
Société d'économie politique organized in 1842 by
Pellegrino Rossi. He was a member of the
Académie des Sciences morales et politiques of the
Institut de France. He was also a member of the
Conseil d'État of the
Second Republic. While many know of the less than amiable relationship between
Auguste Comte and
Saint-Simon, there is much less knowledge of the more amiable twenty-five-year-long relationship between Auguste Comte and Charles Dunoyer. The latter relationship is discussed most fully by
Leonard Liggio in "Charles Dunoyer and French Classical Liberalism".
Auguste Comte's intellectual biographer Mary Pickering also cites a review of Liggio's article when she too mentions this relationship. Dunoyer is also mentioned in the opening sentences of the entry on
slavery by the Comtist
John Kells Ingram in both the ninth, or scholar's edition, of the
Encyclopædia Britannica and the later eleventh edition as well. Although he is one of the over 550 worthies cited in Auguste Comte's
Calendar of Great Men (1849), Dunoyer is primarily cited as a substitute for
Adam Smith. Dunoyer died on 4 December 1862 in
Paris. == Bibliography ==