The Philosophes and Post-revolutionary France

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Clarendon Press, 1982 - Biography & Autobiography - 284 pages
In examining the writings of the group of thinkers known as the Philosophes - Voltaire, Helvetius, Diderot, d'Alembert, d'Holbach and Condorcet - the author's purpose isto establish what practical changes these men sought in France in the decade before 1789, and to determine to what extent these changes were put into practice from 1789 onwards.

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Social and Economic Questions
57
The Law Crime and Punishment
134
The Secularization of Society
180
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