Correspondance Generale d'Helvetius: 1761-1774 / Lettres 465 - 720

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Correspondance Generale d'Helvetius: 1761-1774 / Lettres 465 - 720
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Country
Canada
Published
31 August 2016
Pages
510
ISBN
9781442638822

Correspondance Generale d'Helvetius: 1761-1774 / Lettres 465 - 720

Claude Adrien Helvetius

The first two volumes of the Correspondance generale d'Helvetius inspired international acclaim. Now the third volume offers us further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France. Claude-Adrian Helvetius (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 Helvetius 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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