17th & 18th centuries

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  L'Invention de la catastrophe au XVIIIe siècle: du châtiment divin au désastre naturel

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  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...

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  David MCCALLAM

  L'Art de l'équivoque chez Laclos

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  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...

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  Diderot Studies

  tome 30

  Librairie Droz | Diderot Studies

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  BOMBELLES

  Journal

  T. VII, 1808-1815

  Librairie Droz | Journal du Marquis de Bombelles

  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...

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  Jocelyn ROYÉ

  La Figure du pédant de Montaigne à Molière

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  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...

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  Jean DU BELLAY

  Correspondance. Tome III, 1537-1547

  Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

  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...

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  Christian MICHEL

  Le «célèbre Watteau»

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  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...

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  Alexandre WENGER

  La Fibre littéraire : Le discours médical sur la lecture au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  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...

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  Alain RIFFAUD

  La Ponctuation du théâtre imprimé au XVIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  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...

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  Frédéric BARBIER, Sabine JURATIC, Annick MELLERIO

  Dictionnaire des imprimeurs, libraires et gens du livre à Paris (1701-1789): A-C

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  Whereas the principle of state control over printed matter was constantly reaffirmed during the Enlightenment, the broadening of the readership, the demand for new texts, and the increase in French-language books published abroad made it all but all...