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Jean-Baptiste Say thumbnail
Jean-Baptiste Say
French economist and businessman (1767–1832)
Philippe Pinel thumbnail
Philippe Pinel
French psychiatrist (1745–1826)
Pierre Jean George Cabanis thumbnail
Pierre Jean George Cabanis
French physiologist and materialist philosopher (1757-1808)
Constantin-François Chassebœuf thumbnail
Constantin-François Chassebœuf
French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (1757-1820)
Antoine Destutt de Tracy thumbnail
Antoine Destutt de Tracy
French philosopher (1754-1836)
Marie-Joseph Chénier
French poet, dramatist and politician (1764-1811)
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours thumbnail
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)
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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