Editing Jean-Baptiste Say (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Say map.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Map of [[Croydon]], drawn by the 18-year-old Say in 1785]]
Say was born in [[Lyon]]. His father Jean-Etienne Say was born to a [[Protestant]] family which had moved from [[Nîmes]] to [[Geneva]] for some time in consequence of the revocation of the [[Edict of Nantes]]. Say was intended to follow a commercial career and in 1785 was sent with his brother Horace to complete his education in England.{{sfn|Ingram|1911|p=274}} He lodged for a time in [[Croydon]] and afterwards (following a return visit to France) in [[Fulham]]. During the latter period, he was employed successively by two London-based firms of sugar merchants, James Baillie & Co and Samuel and William Hibbert.<ref>{{citation|first=Brian|last=Lancaster|title=Jean-Baptiste Say's 1785 Croydon street plan|journal=Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society Bulletin|volume=144|date=March 2012|pages=2–5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Brian|last=Lancaster|year=2015|title=Jean-Baptiste Say's First Visit to England (1785/6)|journal=History of European Ideas|volume=41|issue=7|pages=922–930|doi=10.1080/01916599.2014.989676|s2cid=144520487}}</ref> At the end of 1786, he accompanied Samuel Hibbert on a voyage to France which ended in December with Hibbert's death in [[Nantes]]. Say returned to Paris, where he found employment in the office of a [[life assurance]] company directed by [[Étienne Clavière]]. His brother [[Louis Auguste Say|Louis Auguste]] (1774–1840) also became an economist.