ABEILLE, LOUIS PAUL (born 1719, died 1807), became secretary of the Agricultural Society of Brittany, established through GOURNAY'S influence in 1757. He was an ardent physiocrat, and argued (1763) for free trade in corn, along with QUESNAY, MORELLET, and the elder Ai IRABEAU. Writing later on the same subject (1768) he fell into the fallacy that high corn prices make high wages. DUPONT speaks of his style as " cold and heavy " but " clear." He wrote occasionally in the Journal d' Agriculture of Paris, when Dupont became its editor in 1765 ; but he seems never to have been on very good terms with that economist. When he was chosen inspector-general of manufactures (1768) his ardour seems to have cooled down, and he is not to be reckoned among the few who upheld the physiocratio cause after TURGOT'S death in 1781. His writings include (besides the Corps d'observation of the Breton Agricultural Society) the following :—