Gilbert Fournier

Gilbert Fournier used to be a farmer. Nowadays he is a property developer and has built industrial and commercial premises.

Gilbert Fournier is the founder and president of the Frédéric Bastiat Circle of Grenoble, the first Frédéric Bastiat Circle in France, predating ours by several years. A great admirer of Bastiat, he is (along with our board member Jean-Claude Paul-Dejean) one of France’s leading experts on our author. In an outbuilding of his house he has set up a real little museum about Bastiat. It was from this museum that he took a number of engravings that he showed in Aix-en-Provence for 2001 summer university, then in the autumn in Paris for the launch of the book by our friend Jacques Garello Aimez-vous Bastiat?, two events at which our Circle was of course represented. This was the exhibition he presented in Dax on 16 February 2002 for the General Meeting of the Société de Borda, the prestigious historical society of the department of the Landes.

Gilbert Fournier kindly agreed to speak at the dinner-debate held on 16 February 2002 on the subject "Examples of Minimal State".

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