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Author Spurlin, Paul Merrill, 1902-1994, author.

Title The French Enlightenment in America : essays on the times of the founding fathers / Paul Merrill Spurlin ; with a new foreword by Maurizio Valsania.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 203 pages)
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Enlightenment -- The world of the founding fathers and France -- The fathers' knowledge of French -- French literature -- Buffon -- The Philosophes -- Montesquieu and the American Constitution -- Voltaire in the South -- Diderot, D'Alembert, and the Encyclopedia -- A citizen of new-heaven: the Marquis de Condorcet -- French deism, empiricism, ideology, and physiocracy.
Funding The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Note Description based on online resource ; title from PDF title page (viewed July 7, 2021).
Subject United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
United States -- Civilization -- French influences.
Enlightenment -- United States.
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siècle.
États-Unis -- Civilisation -- Influence française.
Siècle des Lumières -- États-Unis.
France -- Vie intellectuelle -- 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
Civilization -- French influences
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Added Author Valsania, Maurizio, 1965- author of foreword.
ISBN 9780820359304 (ebook)
0820359300 (ebook)
9780820359328 (hardcover)
9780820359311 (paperback)
Standard No. AU@ 000070071333

 
    
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