ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a first precise picture of the French reception of Ricardo's works and ideas. It devotes to more specific topics: value and wealth, rent, money and banking and Say's law of markets and crises. The reception of the works of David Ricardo in the French language stands in sharp contrast to what happened in England. The chapter explains the critical tone of the reception of the works of Ricardo in this respect Malthus was more fortunate with his principle of population and his principles of political economy, on many points closer to the French ideas and approaches. Fonteyraud, who contacted and visited Ricardo's family for this work, added a long and interesting introduction to this collection on which more below simply entitled 'Notice sur la vie et les ecrits de David Ricardo'. Ricardo replied on 18 August 1815 and a correspondence started between them, mainly devoted to the discussion of Ricardo's critiques of Say's theory of value.
