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Victor de Riquetti Mirabeau (1715-1789)
Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau (5 October 1715, Pertuis – 13 July 1789, Argenteuil) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He was the father of great Honoré, Comte de Mirabeau and is, in distinction, often referred to as the elder Mirabeau.
He had a younger brother, Jean-Antoine Riqueti de Mirabeau (1717-1794).