LEADER 04052nam 2200697 450 001 9910455798803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-03949-0 010 $a9786612039492 010 $a1-4426-7350-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442673502 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003980 035 $a(EBL)4671392 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001682871 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16508081 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001682871 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15036994 035 $a(PQKB)11278889 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671392 035 $a(DE-B1597)464366 035 $a(OCoLC)999368857 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442673502 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671392 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257102 035 $a(OCoLC)944317851 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003980 100 $a20160921h19841984 uy 0 101 0 $afre 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCorrespondance ge?ne?rale d'Helve?tius$hVolume II$i1757-1760, lettres 250-464 /$fintroduction, etablissement des textes et appareil critique par Alan Dainard, Jean Orsoni et David Smith ; directeur de 1'edition, et Peter Allan, pour la preparation des lettres de Madame Helvetius 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1984. 210 4$d©1984 215 $a1 online resource (455 p.) 225 1 $aUniversity of Toronto Romance Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4426-3881-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tIntroduction -- $tAbréviations et sigles bibliographiques -- $tLettres 250-299 -- $tLettres 300-349 -- $tLettres 350-399 -- $tLettres 400-464 -- $tAppendices -- $tTable des appendices -- $tTable des illustrations -- $tBackmatter 330 $aThis second volume of the Correspondance générale d'Helvétius covers the period of the publication and reception of Helvétius' controversial first work, De l'Esprit (1758). It begins with a letter of January 1757, in which Helvétius recounts the attempt by Damiens on the life of Louis XV, and ends in December 1760 when the author, having been attacked on the stage of the Théatre-Francais but eulogized in foreign journals, is contemplating voluntary exile.In the meantime De l'Esprit provoked an uprecedented outcry from the court and from the religious and civil authorities. Denigrated as the epitome of all dangerous philosophic trends of the age, condemned as atheistic, materialistic, sacriligious, immoral, and subversive, it enjoyed an immense succes de scandale.Rather than examining the puzzles and paradoxes which surround the affaire de l'Esprit, this volume presents the documents upon which solutions may be based. Helvétius' own letters, often written hastily, under stress, and in fear they might be opened by the Cabinet noir, are less revealing than the letters between other protagonists in the affaire: the Cardinal de Bernis and the Duke de Choiseul, Jean-Omer Joly de Fleury, Malesherbes, Saint-Florentin, Tercier, and Louis xv himself.It is these letters, together with the appendixes containing edicts, retractions, an condemnations that shed new light not only on the development of the affaire but also on the complex workings of the ancien regime 410 0$aUniversity of Toronto romance series. 606 $aPhilosophers$zFrance$vCorrespondence 606 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhilosophers 615 7$aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters. 676 $a194 700 $aHelvétius$b Claude Adrien, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0416398 702 $aDainard$b J. A. 702 $aOrsoni$b Jean 702 $aSmith$b David 702 $aAllan$b Peter 702 $aHelvetius$b Madame 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455798803321 996 $aCorrespondance generale d'Helvetius$91272235 997 $aUNINA