This book gives a complete account of all that Locke saw, did and heard during his four years in France. The entries vary from laconic jottings to detailed accounts - full of colour and wit - of life in Paris and the provinces. Locke's variety of interests presents a vivid and thorough account of France at that time. He observed and recorded the absolutism of Louis XIV and the poverty of the peasants, the growing persecution of the Protestants and the external manifestations of Catholicism, recent developments in science and technology - even agricultural methods and the system of taxes. So...
This book gives a complete account of all that Locke saw, did and heard during his four years in France. The entries vary from laconic jottings to det...
First published in 1953, this selection was created to provide the general reader and university students with the texts of Diderot's more important philosophical writings. The works are presented in French, with modernised spelling, and a brief bibliographical note in English precedes each one. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Diderot and his thinking.
First published in 1953, this selection was created to provide the general reader and university students with the texts of Diderot's more important p...
Before the Terror and then the Napoleonic Wars made it impracticable to travel through France, many young British men and women were able to watch at first hand the changes taking place in French society an the agitations that were becoming increasingly loud for reform. This book, originally published in 1987, is a study of France in these crucial years seen through the eyes of the travellers. It marries the travellers accounts to analysis of the political state of France to produce a book equally illuminating of British taste and attitudies to France, and of the French political and...
Before the Terror and then the Napoleonic Wars made it impracticable to travel through France, many young British men and women were able to watch ...
