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There was a marked deterioration in living conditions during the final years of Louis XVI’s reign, compounded by a poor harvest in 1788 and a worrying unemployment rate. Representatives of the third estate clearly manifested their independence from...
While Jean Starobinski showed that the eighteenth century « invented » liberty, it also invented catastrophe. Linguistically, the word appears for the first time in its modern, non-theatrical, sense. Scientifically and philosophically, scholars and...
David McCallam reveals the brilliant modernity of Liaisons dangereuses and of the Laclosian universe, rereading Laclos’ masterpiece based on heretofore ignored notions and patterns such as the secret or the promise. The literary study is completed by...
The years 1808 to 1815 were eventful ones for the marquis de Bombelles: the king of Prussia named him to the head of a deanery in Silesia and Napoleon’s defeat would finally allow him to return to France. But he also had his share of disillusionments...
While the sixteenth-century pedant was in charge of educating young people, at the end of the next century, the word refers to those who abuse their knowledge in their relations with others. At the same time, comic literature made popular the...
The Cardinal Jean du Bellay’s correspondence is an essential historical tool thanks to his role as prelate under the kings Francis I and Henry III, in France and abroad. The publication of the numerous and diverse extant letters was undertaken in...
Working outside court circles and away from the usual patrons, Watteau achieved fame in a short period of time before his premature death. His contemporaries described his paintings as ‘innovative’ and ‘charming’. It is interesting to compare the...
Reading becomes a medical condition in the eighteenth century. Physiologists attribute to the nerve fibre the physical and psychological problems that befall those who read too much or read badly. But do the effects of reading depend on the...
Should critical editions of old texts modernize punctuation? It used to be thought that original punctuation was too erratic to be maintained, but the rediscovery of oratorical practices reopened the debate. Were typesetters to be blamed for every...