TY  - BOOK
AU  - Havens,George R
TI  - The Age of ideas: From Reaction to Revolution in Eighteenth-century France
U1  - 944 19
PY  - 1965/// c1955
CY  - New york:Holt
PB  - The Free Press
KW  - SLSH
KW  - Eighteenth century
N1  - Includes index (p.457-479); PHILOSOPHY
N2  - 	pt. 1. Transition: How absolute government failed -- The critical spirit of Pierre Bayle -- Fénelon, critic of Louis XIV -- Fontenelle and the spirit of modern science -- pt. 2. Criticism, ferment, repression: The sorry reign of Louis the "well beloved" -- Montesquieu and the satirical "Persian letters" -- Montesquieu's question: Why did Rome fall? -- Montesquieu's "Spirit of laws" -- Montesquieu and America -- Voltaire and the bombshell of the "Philosophical letters" -- Voltaire the historian -- Taking counsel with Candide -- The philosopher of Ferney -- Rousseau and modern progress -- Rousseau and the problem of inequality -- Novelist, educator, and political theorist -- Rousseau and the "Confessions" -- Diderot the man -- Diderot and the "Encyclopedia" -- Diderot's criticism of drama and art -- Diderot, novelist and philosopher -- pt. 3. Explosion: Beaumarchais on the eve of the revolution -- Louis XVI pays the bill
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