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page 1Idéologues
Jean-Baptiste Say
French economist and businessman (1767–1832)

Philippe Pinel
French psychiatrist (1745–1826)

Pierre Jean George Cabanis
French physiologist and materialist philosopher (1757-1808)

Constantin-François Chassebœuf
French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (1757-1820)

Antoine Destutt de Tracy
French philosopher (1754-1836)
Marie-Joseph Chénier
French poet, dramatist and politician (1764-1811)

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
French writer, economist, and government official (1739–1817)
Pierre Claude François Daunou
French statesman and historian of the French Revolution and Empire (1761-1840)
François Andrieux
French man of letters and playwright (1759-1833)
Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando
French jurist, philanthropist and philosopher of Italian descent (1772-1842)
Pierre-Louis Ginguené
French author (1748-1816)

Dominique Joseph Garat
French Basque politician (1749-1833)
Pierre Louis Roederer
French politician, economist, and historian (1754-1835)
Pierre Laromiguière
French philosopher (1756-1837)
Idéologues
thumb|right|Frontispiece of Destutt de Tracy's ''Éléments d'idéologie, Parts IV and V: Traité de la volonté et de ses effets'', 1815
The idéologues were a group of French philosophers, physicians and economists, active from the mid-1790s until the end of the Napoleonic era. With the philosopher Antoine Destutt de Tracy and the physician Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis as their leading theorists, the group aimed to develop a systematic "science of ideas" () grounded in eighteenth-century sensualist epistemology and focused on moral, political and educational reform. Although they were never a forma