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The French Enlightenment in America : Essays on the Times of the Founding Fathers /

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Main Author: Spurlin, Paul Merrill, 1902-1994 (Author)
Other Authors: Valsania, Maurizio, 1965- (author of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States.
France.
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
United States > Civilization > French influences.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
Intellectual life.
Enlightenment.
Civilization > French influences.
Enlightenment > United States.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Enlightenment
  • The world of the founding fathers and France
  • The fathers' knowledge of French
  • French literature
  • Buffon
  • The Philosophes
  • Montesquieu and the American Constitution
  • Voltaire in the South
  • Diderot, D'Alembert, and the Encyclopedia
  • A citizen of new-heaven: the Marquis de Condorcet
  • French deism, empiricism, ideology, and physiocracy.

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