Mirabeau’s (and Quesnay’s) Response to the De l’esprit scandal and Quesnay’s Break with the Encyclopédie (Complements to ‘‘La vie de François Quesnay’’ by Jacqueline Hecht)

Sabbagh, Gabriel

Mirabeau’s (and Quesnay’s) Response to the De l’esprit scandal and Quesnay’s Break with the Encyclopédie (Complements to ‘‘La vie de François Quesnay’’ by Jacqueline Hecht)

La réaction de Mirabeau (et Quesnay) au scandale de De l’esprit et la rupture de Quesnay avec l’Encyclopédie (compléments à « La vie de François Quesnay» de Jacqueline Hecht)

Gabriel Sabbagh
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Gabriel Sabbagh: UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7

Abstract: The paper is a tribute to Jacqueline Hecht (1932-2020), and to her biography of Quesnay. It presents three documents, which enrich the history of the physiocratic movement in the period 1758-1760 and, for the first two, deal with the consequences of the scandal provoked by the publication of De l'esprit on this movement: - a letter of Mirabeau to Helvétius, the only one recorded between the two men, condemning Helvétius's book and asking for its withdrawal; - the fact that the Sorbonne listed and quoted one of Quesnay's texts, published in the Encyclopédie, among the writings which inspired De l'esprit; - a proof that a very rare text of Quesnay was printed in march 1760 at Versailles in Madame de Pompadour's apartments and with her assistance. This establishes a claim of Jacqueline Hecht, whose biography was issued without its notes in its two publications of 1958 and 2005.

Keywords: Mirabeau; Quesnay; Helvétius; Hecht; Encyclopédie; soul; censorship; printing; âme; censure; impression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06-01
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2022, Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique 2022 – 1, n° 13, 2022 – 1 (n° 13), pp.23-55. ⟨10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13254-7.p.0023⟩

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DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13254-7.p.0023

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