BONNARDET, Louis. De la Mendicité. 1841.

First edition.
"We will not have forgotten that our sole aim was to deal with the issue of begging, and that it was only incidentally and for the need of discussion that we approached that of indigence. of begging tends to substitute work for alms, and moreover to defend the field of charity which is the inheritance of the truly indigent, against laziness which tends to usurp. " (p.117)

Book against begging and which also criticizes the "tax of the poor" by Louis Bonnardet (1793-1872), economist, head of a railway company, mayor of Saint-Priest (Isère), president of the prison commission.