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Title Writers of the French Enlightenment II / Samia I. Spencer, editor.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2005.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 314
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 314.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents 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".
Summary Presents career biographies and criticism of writers during the time of the French Enlightenment. Many of these writings address philosophical and social topics.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 435 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography.
Authors, French.
Chronological Term 18th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject French literature -- 18th century.
French literature.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Spencer, Samia I., 1943-
Gale Group.
ISBN 0787681326
9780787681326