Avan De Ven

A New Method of Learning to Read, Write and Speak a Language in Six Months, Adapted to the French

• Author(s): Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff

• Categories: French language

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1852
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Boyer's royal dictionary abridged, English and French and French and English

• Author(s): Abel Boyer

• Categories: English language

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1783
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• Publisher: Unknown

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“Spiers and Surenne's” French and English [english and French] Pronouncing Dictionary

• Author(s): Alexander Spiers

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1857
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Enlightenment in Practice

• Author(s): Jeremy L. Caradonna

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-03-15
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• Publisher: Cornell University Press

Public academic prize contests—the concours académique—played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays for scrutiny by panels of judges. In The Enlightenment in Practice, Jeremy L. Caradonna draws on archives both in Paris and the provinces to show that thousands of individuals—ranging from elite men and women of letters artisans, and peasants—participated in these intellectual competitions, a far broader range of people than has been previously assumed. Caradonna contends that the Enlightenmen...