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The French Enlightenment in America Essays on the Times of the Founding Fathers / Paul Merrill Spurlin ; with a new foreword by Maurizio Valsania.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spurlin, Paul Merrill, 1902-1994, author.
- Valsania, Maurizio, 1965- author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
- Intellectual life.
- Enlightenment.
- Civilization--French influences.
- Civilization.
- Enlightenment--United States.
- United States.
- France.
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- United States--Civilization--French influences.
- United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 203 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- The University of Georgia Press, 2021. Athens :
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-5930-0
- OCLC:
- 1267411006
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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