Research Catalog

Title

Tolerance : le combat des lumières : textes rassemblés par la Société Française d'étude du dix-huitiéme siècle.

Publication

• Paris : Société Française d'étude du dix-huitiéme siècle, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

Société française d'étude du XVIIIe siècle issuing body.

Description

96 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Summary

In one month, scientists, researchers, academics have left their scholarly work and selected nearly 50 text and 34 citations to offer everyone, and the rebellious citizen mourns the of attacks in January 2015, a book easy to access, full of beautiful and good phrases, well-chosen, well-turned, generous, exciting. Forty authors of this beautiful Enlightenment, French and foreign, come here want to continue this necessary fight for tolerance, for equality, for freedom, against all forms of exclusion and social violence. Do not forget that Voltaire was guided by some key principles in his action: he thought little more efficient portable books that heavy volumes to influence public opinion, he saw beyond the specific case, anger, punctual, the specific fight to lead the universal principles that must constantly remember, it was not to be discouraged and looking where he was, with the weapons that were his, to work for a world happens one day.

Series Statement

Collection Dix-huitième siècle

Uniform Title

Collection XVIIIe siècle

Subject

• Toleration
• Toleration in literature

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 947016134
• SCSB-11654497

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library