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Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu
1871–1915
A French writer and public figure, he explored politics, economics, and social change with a strong curiosity about the wider world. His life was cut short in World War I, giving his work an added sense of a brilliant career interrupted.
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The Awakening of the East: Siberia—Japan—China
by Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu
About the author
Born in 1871, Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu was a French writer, politician, and trained engineer from a prominent intellectual family. He studied at the École polytechnique, served as an artillery officer, and also sat in the French Chamber of Deputies, balancing public service with a lively interest in ideas and international affairs.
His writing ranged across politics, economics, and society. Library records connect him with works such as Les expériences sociales en Australie and The United States in the Twentieth Century, showing his interest in how other countries were experimenting with modern life, reform, and democracy.
Leroy-Beaulieu died in January 1915 during World War I, at just 43 years old. Remembered both as an author and as a man of public duty, he belongs to a generation whose literary and political work was deeply marked by the upheavals of the early twentieth century.