17th & 18th centuries

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  Emmanuelle HÉNIN

  "Ut pictura theatrum" : Théâtre et peinture de la Renaissance italienne au classicisme français

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  The present study intends to demonstrate the anteriority and primacy of the ut pictura theatrum over the ut pictura poesis, though the former has unfairly been considered an epiphenomenon. Its purpose is to show the coherence and continuity of...

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  Dénouement des Lumières et invention romantique

  Actes du colloque de Genève, 24-25 novembre 2000

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Table of content: Vers une histoire romantique?: B. Baczko, «Entre Thermidor et Brumaire»; C. Müller, «Nostalgie politique, révolution et régime républicain à Genève à la fin de l’Ancien Régime (1782-1792)»; E. Tieffenbach, «De la “main invisible” à...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXII, 1786-1787

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 22

  The state of the Royal finances continued to deteriorate and every year a new deficit had to be added to all the previous ones. Calonne, in charge of finance, thought that a land tax would be an effective remedy. The King summoned the representatives...

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  La Comédie de proverbes : pièce comique (d'après l'édition princeps de 1633)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  The anonymous Comédie des proverbes (c. 1630) is a dramatic and literary joke. This three-act play traditionally attributed to Adrian de Monluc consists of some 1700 proverbs, clichés and other set phrases and still succeeds in painting convincing...

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  Jean-Noël LAURENTI

  Valeurs morales et religieuses sur la scène de l’Académie royale de Musique (1669-1737)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  French operas by Quinault, Lully and their successors are more than mere entertainment: as is any artistic production, the works collected in the Recueil général des opéras convey a certain view of Man and his relationship to the rest of the world as...

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  André TISSIER

  Les Spectacles à Paris pendant la Révolution : répertoire analytique, chronologique et bibliographique

  Volume 2, De la proclamation de la République à la fin de la Convention nationale (21 septembre 1792 - 26 octobre 1795)

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Tome II of Les Spectacles à Paris pendant la Révolution stretches from the proclamation of the Republic in September 1792 to the end of the Convention in October 1795, thus including the Reign of Terror (June 1793 to July 1794). During these four...

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  Frédéric BARBIER

  Lumières du Nord. Imprimeurs, libraires et "gens du livre" dans le Nord de la France au XVIIIe siècle (1701-1789)

  Dictionnaire prosopographique

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  The Enlightenment was a time of fundamental change in the world of books. As early as 1760-1770, a “second revolution of the book” occured, strongly linked to political and industrial revolutions. This pivotal era has long been scrutinized by...

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  Le Temps de Montesquieu

  Actes du colloque international de Genève (28-31 octobre 1998)

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  Le Temps de Montesquieu is a collection of presentations given in 1998 at an international symposium to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Spirit of Laws at the Genevan printers Barrilot et fils. It gives the Genevan and...

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  Christian WINDLER

  La Diplomatie comme expérience de l'autre : Consuls français au Maghreb (1700-1840)

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  Christian Windler charts the evolution of the diplomatic service in North Africa, taking as his starting point a French consul in Tunis, part of a body of specialized intermediaries that was gradually establishing itself. While the XVIIIth century had...

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  Amor CHERNI

  Diderot : L'Ordre et le devenir

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Histoire Ethico-Politique

  Despite his directing the Encyclopédie, Diderot's credentials as a true "philosophe" have often been called into question. His thought hinges on several key principles but bears on all realms of knowledge: the power and limitations of the senses, the...