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First and only edition. ‘Le mauvais état de santé de M. Stourm ne lui permettant pas de monter à la tribune pour y développer une opinion longuement méditée sur la questions des sucres, il a pris le parti de faire imprimer ce qu’il ne pouvait pas dire’ (p. 2).

The French had begun cultivating sugar beet during the Napoleonic wars, when the British blocked shipments of cane sugar from colonies such as Martinique and Guadeloupe. When the wars ended, and cane sugar reappeared on the market, most European countries stopped beet production, except for France, which continued to develop sweeter varieties of beet. By 1837, sugar beet accounted for half of all French sugar production. Stourm, a deputy in the Aube, a département which at the time had no means of refining beet sugar itself, here argues for the preservation of sugar beet production in France, and to allow the colonies to trade with other nations, as imports represent a menace to indigenous industry.

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