Abstract
Numa Broc : French travellers in China. Enlightened Europe undertook a rapprochement with Manchou China which was in a period of expansion and needed money and technical experts ; it welcomed with great tolerance foreign traders, missionaries and travellers. While trade was restricted to Canton and subjected to Han intermediaries, the jesuits had great success in Peking, providing the philosopher-emperor (or enlightened despot) with the scientists, generals and diplomats he needed. Travel accounts, Chinese Atlas, the vision of Confucianism and Chinese art, all contributed to a passion for things Chinese throughout Europe which was encouraged by the Philosophes. The Jesuits, who admired Chinese agriculture, also provided the Physiocrats with a perfect illustration of their theory. In the second half of the century, the gradual closing up of China was paralleled by a decline of Chinese fashion in Europe.
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