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Présente "L'Encyclopédie méthodique", qui succéda à celle de Diderot et d'Alembert. Conçue par C.-J. Panckoucke, elle est constituée de cinquante dictionnaires spécialisés. Illustrés de plus de six mille planches gravées, ses deux cents volumes furent publiés sur une cinquantaine d'années, depuis le règne de Louis XVI jusqu'à la monarchie de Juillet.
The Lamothes were an ordinary family in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. Well-to-do and well respected by their neighbors, they were local notables whose private and public lives suggest the importance of family, kin, and friendship networks, professional activities and cultural interests, as well as a desire to serve the public good. In this portrait of the Lamothes, Christine Adams explores the development of middle-class identity among urban professionals and reconsiders the role of this social group in the coming French Revolution. The most striking feature of this family history is that it is based on more than three hundred personal letters that circulated among the Lamothes&—parents and...
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