Alfred Legoyt

Alfred Legoyt (1812-1885) was a French statistician who organised the census of France in 1856, 1861 and 1866. Quotes Italy is, after France and perhaps in the same degree, the land in which love of country has the deepest roots in the hearts of its inhabitants. The fact is that perhaps nowhere else has nature been so prodigal with its enchantments and seductions. Therefore, although Italy has been, since the fall of the Caesars, the object of European covetousness, the eternal battlefield of powerful neighbors, and the theatre of the fiercest and most prolonged civil wars, her children have always refused to leave her. Save for some commercial colonies hastily thrown upon the shores of Asia by Genoa and Venice, history has not, in fact, recorded in Italy any important outward movement of population. Alfred Legoyt (1861) cited in: Richard N. Juliani Building Little Italy http://books.google.com/books?id=IbB7AnIJ8fsC&pg=PA184 June 2005 Penn State Press 978-0-271-02864-4 184– External links Category:Statisticians Category:People from France Category:1885 deaths