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.
Print Book, English, ©1999
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©1999
History
146 pages ; 24 cm
9780253334923, 9780253212740, 0253334926, 025321274X
39322894
1. Portrait of a Discrete Philosophe 2. In Monsieur BrinonOs Garden 3. A School for Scandal 4. Libert , Egalit , Fraternit 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