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Éloge de François Quesnay.
1775réf. 151683London et se trouve à Paris: Chez Didot 1775. An important source on Quesnay's life First edition of this eulogy on Quesnay giving an account of the physiocratic system published soon after Quesnay's death in December 1774 and an important contemporary source on his life. Romance the future Marquis of Mesmon belonged to a family of royal soldiers and lived in Versailles where he was employed in the military house of the king. The eulogy "followed the canon of the 'philosophical eulogy' that d'Alembert cherished. It concentrated on Quesnay as a physiocrat rather than as a person and a large amount of the text was concerned with his economic publications" Théré & Charles p. 199. Octavo 189 x 122 mm. Recent marbled boards tan calf label. Complete with half-title. Binding fine; light spotting at rear and a few pencilled marginal lines else contents fresh. A very good copy. ESTC T93983; INED 3894; François Quesnay et la Physiocratie I p. 325. See Christine Théré and Loïc Charles "François Quesnay: A 'Rural Socrates' in Versailles" in E. Roy Weintraub and Evelyn L. Forget Economists' Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of Economics Duke University Press 2007 hardcover
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