Claude Carlier

Carlier came to public notice when he participated in a contest held by the Academy of Amiens [fr] and sponsored by the intendant of finances Daniel-Charles Trudaine between 1752 and 1754.

He won the contest with an essay arguing that Spanish and English breeds produced better wool.

A few years later, the controller-general of finances, Henri Bertin, hired Carlier as a consultant-propagandist tasked with promoting new breeds of sheep and new shepherding practices.

This book was highly influential in the subsequent adoption of Flemish breeds throughout France.

Carlier himself synthesised the data in a two-volume publication in 1770, Treaty on Wool Sheep, or a Method of Raising and Perfecting the Herds in the Fields and the Sheepfold, a Practical Work.