Mises Daily
Author:
Henry Hazlitt
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Frédéric Bastiat was born at Bayonne, France, on June 29, 1801. His father was a wholesale merchant, but Frédéric was orphaned at the age of nine and was brought up by his grandfather and his aunt. He seems to have had a good, though not an extraordinary education, which included languages, music, and literature. He began the study of political