The final years

There is a certain continuity in the periodicals to which Say was successively committed during his career. Republicanism, progress and the unity of the sciences, all were to some extent characteristic elements of the editorial policies of La Décade (1794–1807), Le Censeur Européen (1817–1819) and La Revue Encyclopédique (1819–1835). Under Say’s editorship (1794–1800), the Décade could perhaps be labelled politically as middle of the road, in its later period it decidedly was left of centre; so were the Censeur Européen, edited by Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer, and the Revue Encyclopédique. This monthly periodical was founded in 1819 by Marc Antoine Jullien. ¹ Its tables of content demonstrate that ‘économie politique’ had been fully accepted as one of the ‘sciences morales’. Both as an author and as a reviewer, Say was a regular contributor. ² The discussion with Sismondi in the Revue has already been summarised above. Say’s successor-to-be at the Conservatoire, Adolphe Blanqui, also published in the journal.