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Correspondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume III : 1761-1774 / Lettres 465-720 / Claude Adrien Helvétius; Jean Orsoni, Marie-Thérèse Inguenaud, Alan Dainard, Peter Allan, David Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Correspondance générale d'Helvétius ; 3Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (510 p.) : 22 b&w illustrations, 1 b&w mapContent type:
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  • 9780802027788
  • 9781442683853
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 840.8005 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ1131 .C677 1991
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: The first two volumes of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius inspired international acclaim. Now the third volume offers us further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France.Claude-Adrian Helvétius (1715-71) was a wealthy and high-ranking member of French society. He was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time and, through family, with the court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher, encyclopedist, and author of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his wife, Anne Catherine de Ligneville, corresponded with the great and influential throughout Europe.The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvétius enjoyed the fruits of his fame, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced two books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which were published after his death.
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The first two volumes of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius inspired international acclaim. Now the third volume offers us further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France.Claude-Adrian Helvétius (1715-71) was a wealthy and high-ranking member of French society. He was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time and, through family, with the court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher, encyclopedist, and author of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his wife, Anne Catherine de Ligneville, corresponded with the great and influential throughout Europe.The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvétius enjoyed the fruits of his fame, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced two books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which were published after his death.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In French.

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