Chevalier', Michel

an eminent French political economist, B. at Limoges, 1806. After brilliant study at the Polytechnic School, he was first publicly employed in 1825 as an engineer in the dep. Nord. About this time he became an ardent St. Simon i an. He joined in the schism of the Père Enfant in, was one of the preachers at Ménil-montant, and took part in editing the Livre Nou veau, the future gospel of the doctrines of the sect. For his share in these proceedings he was condemned to a year's imprisonment, as being guilty of an outrage to public morals. After 6 months' confinement, one half of the sentence having been remitted, he retracted in the Globe all he had written against the Christian religion, marriage, and social institutions, and obtained from M. Thiers a special mi ion to the U. States to study the system of railroad and water communication in this country. The letters which during his journey he addre ed to the Journal des Débats attracted much attention, served to remove many French prejudices on industrial subjects, and were published separately in 1836 under the title of Lettres sur l'Amerique du Nord. This brilliant work led to his being intrusted with a mi ion to England at the time of the great commercial panic of 1837. On his return from London, in 1838, he published Des Intérêts Matériels en France. This book, often reprinted, contains a programme of industrial improvements. In 1840 he was made Profe or of Political Economy in the College of France. The revolution of 1848 causing him to lose his various appointments, he threw himself into the ranks of the anti-revolutionists and replied to the attacks of the Socialists on the doctrines of political economy, and to those of his former co-religionists, in his Lettres sur l'Organisation du Travail et la Question des Travailleurs, published in 1848. In 1851 he was elected into the section of Political Economy in the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. After the coup d'état he was restored to his profe orship in the College of France, and promoted to the rank of engineer-in-chief. He was created a senator in 1860, and is grand officer of the Légion d'Honneur. Mons. C. is the author of many works on political economy. In addition to those already referred to, may be noticed as his principal works, Cours d'Economie Politique (1842-50): E ais de Politique Industrielle (1843); and De 11 Bai e Probable de l'Or, in 1859, which was translated into English by Mr. Cobden, under the title On the Probable Fall of Gold. C. published a pamphlet, L'Expedition du Mexique in 1862, and Le Méxique Ancien et Moderne, in 1863. The latter, and several of his other works, have been translated into English and German. D. 1879. Chev'en, n. [Fr. chevanne.] (Zool.) A river-fish; the Chev'erM, n. [Fr. chevreau , kid.] Soft kid-leather; kid- -A soft, timid, pliable disposition or manner: as, "A wit of cheveril." - Shaks . Alabama River from the N.W., about 18 m. below -a. Po e ing pliability, or the nature of yielding. Cahawba. Che'tah, n. ( Zool .) Same as CHEETAH, q. v. chub.-See CYPRINUS. skin. "Which gifts. your soft cheveril conscience would receive, If you might please to stretch it"- Shake.