
Correspondance générale d'Helvétius, Volume II
This second volume of the Correspondance générale d''Helvétius covers the period of the publication and reception of Helvétius'' controversial first work, De l''Esprit (1758). It begins with a letter of January 1757, in which Helvétius recounts the attempt by Damiens on the life of Louis XV, and ends in December 1760 when the author, having been attacked on the stage of the Théatre-Francais but eu...
This second volume of the Correspondance générale d''Helvétius covers the period of the publication and reception of Helvétius'' controversial first work, De l''Esprit (1758). It begins with a letter of January 1757, in which Helvétius recounts the attempt by Damiens on the life of Louis XV, and ends in December 1760 when the author, having been attacked on the stage of the Théatre-Francais but eu...