Introduction: Republic of Letters and Enlightenment
1: Esprit Calvet
2: The intellectual milieu
3: The physician
4: The antiquarian
5: The natural historian
6: The bibliophile
7: The revolutionary climacteric
8: Conclusion: Enlightenment and Republic of Letters
Laurence Brockliss is a Reader in Modern History
at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Recommended. Choice ... elegantly instructive study ... Drawing on the material from the museum, the correspondence and records of Calvet's possessions, Brockliss has been able to draw up a remarkably full portrait of this mildly unattractive man. David A. Bell, London Review of Books
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