Correspondance générale d`Helvétius, Volume III – 1761–1774 / Lettres 465–720

Correspondance Gnrale D'Helvtius, Volume III1761-1774 / Lettres 465-720\nAuthor(s): Claude Adrien Helvtius, David Smith, Peter Allan, Alan Dainard, Marie-Thrse Inguenaud, Jean Orsoni\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442638822, 978-1442638822\nSynopsis\nThe first two volumes of the Correspondance gnrale d'Helvtius inspired international acclaim. Now the third volume offers us further insight into a variety of aspects of life in eighteenth-century France.\n\n Claude-Adrian Helvtius [tel] 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.\n\n.