Correspondance générale d'Helvétius. Volume 3 : 1761-1774 / Lettres 465 - 720.

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Helvétius, Claude Adrien, author

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The third volumes of the Correspondance generale d'Helvetius offers readers further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France. Claude-Adrian Helvetius (1715-71) was a w...

The third volumes of the Correspondance generale d'Helvetius offers readers further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France. Claude-Adrian Helvetius (1715-71) was a wealthy and high-ranking member of French society. He was acquainted with the leading political and social figures of his time and, through family, with the court and government which he occasionally served in a diplomatic capacity. Philosopher, encyclopedist, and author of the explosive De l'Esprit, he and his wife, Anne Catherine de Ligneville, corresponded with the great and influential throughout Europe. The letters in this volume were written between 1761 and 1774, a period in which Helvetius enjoyed the fruits of his fame, travelled to England (1764) and Prussia (1765), and produced two books, Le Bonheur and De l'homme, which were published after his death.

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