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It has thus far been established that although textually the three English translations of Réflexions (1793, 1801, 1898) resemble one another more than they differ, readers of W.J. Ashley are given to understand that the anonymous first author was a hack. They are at the same time not given the prefatory “Eulogium” which bespeaks no hack, but someone extraordinarily familiar with the “detached” writings of his late, great contemporary, Turgot.
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G. Schelle, “Pourquoi Les ‘Réflexions’ de Turgot sur la formation et la distribution des richesses ne sont-elles pas exactement connues?” the article that was inspired, so the author of it says, by Léon Say’s pointing to the inexactness in connection with Schelle’s book on DuPont. Schelle finds that Daire has copied DuPont when putting together his Oeuvres de Turgot.
A later edition, also incorporating the Schelle researches, is found p. 77-140, in P. Vigreux, Turgot, Paris: Dallor, 1947.
G. Schelle, Oeuvres de Turgot, III, p. 73
Ibid., p. 371 “… je vous prie, s’il en est temps, de retrancher la partie théologique du morceau sur l’usure …” Turgot has referred to Réflexions here as “the widow’s mite” (le denier de la veuve), and says, regarding the passage, “I think you will find it marked in the manuscript, between parentheses … In any case you won’t have any difficulty in distinguishing it from the rest. If there isn’t time to pull it out, I’ll not be too angry.”
The consensus of Turgot’s editors has been that LXXV was dropped but, and as Schelle said regarding the 1770 reprint, this number LXXV was rétabli.
H. v. Scheel, “Turgot als Nationalökonom,” in Zeitschrift für die gesammte Staatswissenschaft (1868), No. 24, p. 243–270, a very uncompromising exponent of the view that the Grundprinzipien der modernen Wirtschaftslehre, in terms both of method and content, originated in France. A new setting that claims for itself “ein ruhiges Weiterlesen” distinguishes an edition examined in the Firestone Library at Princeton. Réflexions is in French, though rarely Turgot’s; it is set in seven major divisions of unnumbered paragraphs, on p. 37-107 of Französische Schriftsteller aus dem Gebiete der Philosophie, Kulturgeschichte und Naturwissenschaft, No. 7. Ed. Prof. D. J. Ruska. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s, 1913.
Schelle, op. cit., II, p. 58on. “Turgot left DuPont free to suppress this chapter in the Ephémérides: that is what was done … Turgot would have preferred not to have it in. We therefore are not reproducing it here.”
S. Feilbogen, Smith und Turgot, p. 43.
E. Daire & H. Dussard, Oeuvres de Turgot, II, p. 833.
Feilbogen, op. cit., loc. cit.
Schelle, op. cit., III, p. 73.
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Lundberg, I.C. (1964). Editions. In: Turgot’s Unknown Translator. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9592-8_3
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