Léonard Joseph (Léon) Faucher was a French politician and economist.
Léon Faucher
Caricature of Léon Faucher, French politician and economist
Société d'économie politique
The Société d’Economie Politique is a French learned society concerned with political economy. It was founded in 1842 to provide a forum for discussion of free trade, a subject of violent debate at the time, and has continued to organize discussions on economic and social issues to the present day.
Frédéric Passy (1822–1912), for many years president of the society