Gerard BeaurJean-Michel Chevet is a French researcher at ADESSS-UMR-5185 and the Institut Scientifique de la Vigne et du Vin in Bordeaux. He specialises in the economic history of the countryside, particularly French and English growth and the history of vine-grwing. Gerard Beaur is directeur des recherches at the CNRS and directeur d'etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS). He is a specialist in Early Modern economic history and also works extensively on agrarian history. He is a member of the research group, Centre de Recherches Historiques in Paris and directs the International Research Network (GDRI), Crises and Changes in the European Countryside (CRICEC), part of the French CNRS. Read More Read Less