The French Enlightenment in America : Essays on the Times of the Founding Fathers / / Paul Merrill Spurlin ; with a new foreword by Maurizio Valsania.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Athens : : The University of Georgia Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 203 pages) |
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Table of 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.