The link between Quesnay and Confucius goes more deeply than the simple expression "Confucius of Europe". As is well known, Quesnay wrote a text called /Despotisme de la Chine/. What is less known is that in the manuscript version of this text, there is a chapter called "Vie sommaire de Confucius" (A summary of the life of Confucius) in which the story of Confucius's life looks very much like an idealized projection of Quesnay's own life. Moreover, this "Vie sommaire..." closes with several maxims attributed to Confucius. This chapter which was absent from the version printed in the /Eph=E9m=E9rides du citoyen/, has been recently published and for the first time in the 2005 INED edition of Quesnay's writings:=A0 /Oeuvres =E9conomiques compl=E8tes et autres textes/, Paris: INED, 2005, 2 vols. (the relevant passage is in vol. 2, p. 1062-1070. For those who do not read french language, Elisabeth Fox-Genovese has provided an apt description of this chapter in her /Origins of Physiocracy/, p. 74-76. Finally, it is true that Turgot had extended contact with two young chinese who stayed in France for a few years. It is indeed for them that he initially wrote the /Reflections on the formations and distribution of wealth/ (I believe that Peter Groenewegen gives the details of this story in his collection of translations of Turgot's economic writings). Yours, Loic Charles