Correspondance générale d'Helvétius. Volume III, 1761-1774, lettres 465-720 /

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Author / Creator:	Helvétius, 1715-1771.
Imprint:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press ; Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, ©1991.
Description:	1 online resource (xxii, 483 pages) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles.
Language:	French
Series:	University of Toronto romance series ; 63 University of Toronto romance series ; 63.
Subject:	Helvétius, -- 1715-1771. Helvétius, Anne-Catherine, -- 1719?-1800. Helvétius, Anne-Catherine, -- 1719?-1800 Helvétius, -- 1715-1771. Philosophers -- France -- Correspondence. Philosophers. France. Personal correspondence. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11160032

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Varying Form of Title:	1761-1774, lettres 465-720
Other authors / contributors:	Helvétius, Anne-Catherine, 1719?-1800. Dainard, J. A., editor. Inguenaud, Marie-Thérèse, editor. Orsoni, Jean, 1931- editor. Smith, David, 1932- editor. Allan, Peter, 1931- editor.
ISBN:	9781442683853 1442683856
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	The third volumes of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius offers readers further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France. Claude-Adrian Helvétius (1715-71) was a wealthy and high-ranking member of French society. He was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time and, through family, with the court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher, encyclopedist, and author of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his wife, Anne Catherine de Ligneville, corresponded with the great and influential throughout Europe. The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvétius enjoyed the fruits of his fame, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced two books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which were published after his death.

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