Publication

2002-08-06 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

117,500 words, Guess

Page Count

470 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCDC33.4.B76 2002

Description

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.

First Sentence

Esprit-Claude-Francois Calvet was born in the papal enclave of Avignon on 28 November 1728 at 6 p.m. with two teeth.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Calvet's Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century FranceOxford University Press, USA2002-08-06

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