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Biography

Augustin Cournot was the son of Claude Agapite Cournot (1760-1842) and Claire Eratif. He had siblings Joseph Antoine Cournot, who was born in 1803 but died in the following year, Judith Xavière Cournot (1805-1876) and Eugène Cournot (1810-1880). His parents seem to have had little influence on the young child who lived with a paternal uncle, two maiden aunts and Augustin's grandmother Marguerite Josèphe Cournot. This uncle was a major influence on the young boy. Henry Ludwell Moore (1869-1958) writes [30]:-

This uncle was educated by Jesuits, and remained loyal to them throughout the terrible days of the Revolution and the anxious period that followed. He had a varied reading, a great capacity for work, a still greater capacity for self-sacrifice. In order to help his father bear the burdens of a large family, he remained unmarried, obtained an appointment to a notary's office, - work which he heartily disliked, - and devoted the income to the family support, so that a Biography of william shakespeare!