 Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve

Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve (16 October 1703, Moncontour – 10 November 1781, Néris-les-Bains, Allier) was an 18th-century French economist.First a schoolmaster in Paris and then in the office of Châlons-en-Champagne, Faiguet wrote several articles for the "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" by Diderot including "Citation", "Dimanche", "Epargne", "Etude", "Explicite", "Expulser", "Extraction des racines", "Fêtes des chrétiens", "Fidèle", "Langue nouvelle", "Maîtrises", "Moraves", "Sanctification", "Terres, mesure des", and "Usure".