This article discusses the participation of women in the development of eighteenth-century French political economy and, more specifically, their role in the network of a prominent group of French economic authors of this period, known as the physiocrats. Our argument is that women played a significant, if seldom visible, role in the creation and dissemination of the ‘new science’ of physiocratic political economy. First, they acted as cultural mediators of the science nouvelle. It explains why the major physiocrats created a model of scientific institution that mixed academic life with salon sociability, and that was therefore open to women unlike the main European academies of the period. Second, we underline the importance of the domestic sphere in the making of physiocratic political economy. The case study of Marie Le Dée, the spouse of a prominent physiocrat, informed us on the invisible though important agency of women in the production of physiocratic knowledge.

本文讨论了妇女在 18 世纪法国政治经济学发展中的参与，更具体地说，是她们在这一时期法国著名经济作家群体（被称为重农学派）网络中的作用。我们的论点是，女性在重农政治经济学的“新科学”的创造和传播中发挥了重要的作用，虽然很少见。首先，他们充当了新科学派的文化中介. 它解释了为什么主要的重农主义者创造了一种将学术生活与沙龙社交相结合的科学机构模型，因此与当时的主要欧洲学院不同，它对女性开放。其次，我们强调国内领域在重农政治经济学形成中的重要性。Marie Le Dée 的案例研究，一位著名的重农学派的配偶，让我们了解了女性在生产重农学知识方面的无形但重要的机构。