Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Farmington Hills, Mi Gale 2007 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780787681326
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0787681326
Series Statement:
Dictionary of literary biography v. 314
Content:
Marie-Catherine-Renee Darcel de Maraise (1737-1822) - Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688-1763) - Jean-Francois Marmontel (1723-1799) - Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759) - Louis-Sebastien Mercier (1740-1814) - Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) - Andre Morellet (1727-1819) - Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles (1697-1763) - Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux (1720-1798) - Nicolas-Edme Restif (Retif) de La Bretonne (1734-1806) - Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (Marie-Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezieres Riccoboni) (1713-1792) -- Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platiere (Madame Roland) (1754-1793) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - Marquis de Sade (Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, comte de Sade) (1740-1814) - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755) - Marguerite-Jeanne Cordier de Staal-Delaunay (1684?-1750) - Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard (1732-1817) - Alexandrine-Claude Guerin de Tencin (1682-1749) - Marie-Genevieve Thiroux d'Arconville (1720-1805) - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, baron de l'Aulne (1727-1781) - Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, "Le Discours sur le style" - Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, "The Tenth Stage" - Sophie Cottin, "Claire d'Albe" - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - Denis Diderot, "The Encyclopedia" - Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Women" - Francoise d'Issembourg de Graffigny, "Letters from a Peruvian Woman" - Claude-AdruebGekvetuysm "The Spirit of Laws" - Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach (as Jean-Baptiste de Mirabaud), "The System of Nature" - Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos, "Dangerous Acquaintances" - Louis-Sebastien Mercier, "Le Tableau de Paris" - Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, "The Spirit of Lays" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "The Social Contract" - Marquis de Sade, "Dialogue entre un pretre et un moribund" - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, baron de l'Aulne, "Memorandum on Local Government" - Voltare, "An account of the death of the chevalier de La Barre" - Voltaire, "Candide" - Voltaire, "Philosophical Dictionary".
Content:
Presents career biographies and criticism of writers during the time of the French Enlightenment. Many of these writings address philosophical and social topics
Note:
Original 435 p
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Mode of access: Internet.
Language:
English
URL:
Available via Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
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