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In the vast literature devoted to the exploration of the intellectual origins of European economic policies, few doctrines have attracted as much interest as the school known as German ordoliberalism. This article investigates the international career of ordoliberal ideas. It aims to question the traditional narrative, often somewhat linear, of their slow spread from Germany to Europe. It will examine the introduction of ordoliberal ideas in France—that is, the processes that led to the diffusion, reception, and discussion of these ideas—in the 1950s. The survey is based on the archives of this circulation—translations, prefaces, reviews, comments, etc.—, on the identification of the actors involved, and on the identification of the uses they made of these ideas. It will show that ordoliberal ideas were known about in France earlier than is suggested by the traditional narrative. But, whilst acclimatizing them to the French context, this circulation also had the effect of reframing them within French debates.