The style of Paris : Renaissance origins of the French Enlightenment
Introduces the reader to a group of talented young men, some of them teenagers, who were the talk of the town in Renaissance Paris. They called themselves philosophes, they wrote poetry, they studied Greek and mathematics and they entertained subversive notions concerning religion and politics.
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1 online resource (146 pages)
9780253028136, 0253028132
607121181
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 Portrait of a Discreet Philosophe; 2 In Monsieur Brinon's Garden; 3 A School for Scandal; 4 Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité; 5 Historical Research in the Service of Philosophy; 6 Optimi Auctores; 7 Dangerous Classes; 8 Ex Tenebras Lux; 9 The Republic of Letters; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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