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Calvet's Web2002

Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France

by Laurence Brockliss

This is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley.

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