But in France, as in the rest of Europe, there has been no suchdominant school since the expiry of the school of French Liberal economists who were in their prime twenty years ago (though they lived to so great an age, long after their influence had passed away, that it fell to my duty, when I first became a youthful editor of the Economic Journal to write the obituaries of many of themLevasseur, Molinari, Leroy Beaulieu).