Bastiat was elected to the national legislative assembly after the French Revolution of 1848. After the middle-class Revolution of 1830, Bastiat became politically active and was elected justice of the peace of Mugron in 1831 and to the Council General (county-level assembly) of Landes in 1832. Bastiat developed intellectual interests in several areas including philosophy, history, politics, religion, travel, poetry, political economy and biography. The next year when Bastiat was 24, his grandfather died, leaving him the family estate, thereby providing him with the means to further his theoretical inquiries. Bastiat accompanied him and cared for him. This hope was not realized as his grandfather was in poor health and wished to go to the Mugron estate. īastiat began to develop an intellectual interest as he no longer wished to work with his uncle and desired to go to Paris for formal studies. It was the same firm where his father had been a partner. At age 17, he left school at Sorèze to work for his uncle in his family's export business. He attended a school in Bayonne, but his aunt thought poorly of it and so enrolled him in the school Saint-Sever. He was fostered by his paternal grandfather and his unmarried aunt Justine Bastiat.
Pierre Bastiat died in 1810, leaving Frédéric an orphan. The Bastiat estate in Mugron had been acquired during the French Revolution and had previously belonged to the Marquis of Poyanne. His father moved inland to the town of Mugron, with Frédéric following soon afterward. His mother died in 1808 when Frédéric was seven years old.
His father, Pierre Bastiat, was a prominent businessman in the town. Bastiat was born on 29 June 1801 in Bayonne, Aquitaine, a port town in the south of France on the Bay of Biscay.
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