 Grouchy also argued that a heavily regulated market increased poverty, forcing the poor to remain poor, or even become poorer because they couldn’t regulate their exchanges or negotiate their work and production fairly. Grouchy, like Condorcet and Turgot, believed that shackling the market with strict laws was a form of domination and that allowing farmers and merchants to set their own prices would go some way towards relieving poverty in the country. Thus she can be interpreted as one of the original defenders of commercial republicanism (Bergès 2018a).