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A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France.

The founders of the Enlightenment in France are presented in this volume. The author emphasizes the practice as well as practical humanism and examines their fa

A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transform

During the eighteenth-century, at a time when secular and religious authors in France were questioning women’s efforts to read, a new literary genre emerged:

For centuries the histories of France and Germany have been linked in ways productive and destructive, and each nation's sense of itself has often been shaped b