Correspondance Gnrale D'Helvtius, Volume IV - 9781442638839

Correspondance Gnrale D'Helvtius, Volume IV1774-1800 / Lettres 721-855\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: 9781442638839, 978-1442638839\nSynopsis\nThis is the fourth of five volumes of the letters of the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvtius [tel], author of the controversial De l'Esprit [tel]. Featuring the correspondence of Mme Helvtius, ne Anne Catherine de Ligniville [tel], in the years following her husband's death, this volume also includes letters by and to Helvtius discovered since the publication of the first three volumes.\n\n Mme Helvtius enjoyed an active widowhood, welcoming to her salon in Auteuil a group of intellectuals who came to be known as the Idologues. A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, she was involved in political events before and during the French Revolution, as we.