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

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

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 313
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 313.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Charlotte-Elisabeth Aisse (1694?-1733) - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) - Charles Batteux (1713-1780) - Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) - Mme de Beaumer (?-1766) - Francoise-Albine Puzin de La Martiniere Benoist (1731-circa 1809) - Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788) - Marthe-Marguerite de Caylus (1671-1729) - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort (1740?-1794) - Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805) - Gabrielle-Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-1749) - Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714-1780) - Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) -- Sophie Cottin (1770-1807) - Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon pere (1674-1762) - Anne Le Fevre Dacier (1647-1720) - Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise Du Deffand (1696-1780) - Denis Diderot (1713-1784) - Anne-Marie Du Boccage (1710-1802) - Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours (1730-1817) - Louise d'Epinay (Louise-Florence-Petronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles, marquise d'Epinay) (1726-1783) - Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) - Elie Catherine Freron (1718-1776) - Stephanie-Felicite Ducrest, comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830) - Madeleine-Angelique Poisson de Gomez (1684-1770) - Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) - Francoise d'Issembourg de Graffigny (1695-1758) - Frederic Melchior Grunn (1723-1807) - Claude-Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771) - Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holback (1723-1789) - Louise-Felicite de Keralio-Robert (1758-1822) - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chausse (1692-1754) - Pierre-Ambroise-Francois Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) - Jean-Francois de La Harpe (1739-1803) - Anne-Therese de Lambert (Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert) (1647-1733) - Julien Offroy de La Mettrie (1709-1751) - Alain-Rene Lesage (1668-1747) - Julie de Lespinasse (1732-1776) - Marie-Charlotte-Pauline Robert de Lezardiere (1754-1835).
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: 414 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 0787681318
9780787681319