The publications in which Quesnay expounded his system were the following: two articles, on "Fermiers" (Farmers) and on "Grains", in the "Encyclopédie" of Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1756, 1757); a discourse on the law of nature in the "Physiocratie" of Dupont de Nemours (1768); "Maximes générales de gouvernement economique d'un royaume agricole" (1758), and the simultaneously published "Tableau économique avec son explication, ou extrait des économies royales de Sully" (with the celebrated motto, "Pauvres paysans, pauvre royaume; pauvre royaume, pauvre roi"); "Dialogue sur le commerce et les travaux des artisans"; and other minor pieces.