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Quesnay [ke-ne] Examples noun
- Fran·çois [frahn-swa] /frɑ̃ˈswa/, 1694–1774, French economist and physician.
Examples from the Web for quesnay Historical Examples of quesnay
Quesnay replied, “I am very far from believing him to be actuated by bad intentions, Madame; he loves the King and the people.”
The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete
Madame du Hausset, an “Unknown English Girl” and the Princess Lamballe
The prologue, written at the request of Mr. Quesnay, is as above.
The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III)
Philip Freneau
According to Quesnay and the early economists, all production comes from the land.
P. J. Proudhon
But the first and greatest of the economists properly so called was Quesnay.
A Short History of French Literature
George Saintsbury
No one had seriously studied the crime of Quesnay before him.
G. le Notre
British Dictionary definitions for quesnay Quesnay noun
- François (frɑ̃swa). 1694–1774, French political economist, encyclopedist, and physician. He propounded the theory championed by the physiocrats in his Tableau économique (1758)