French antiquary, politician, and writer (1773–1842)
Comte[1]Louis-Joseph-Alexandre de Laborde (17 September 1773 – 20 October 1842) was a French antiquary, liberal politician and writer, a member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques[2] (1832), under the rubric political economy.
^Laborde was made a Count of the Empire under Napoleon but at the Bourbon Restoration assumed the title of marquis de Laborde purchased by his father.