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COPYRIGHT 2003 Modern Humanities Research Association
Les Combats des lumieres: recueil d'etudes sur le dix-huitieme siecle. By ROLAND MORTIER, with a preface by ROBERT DARNTON. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre international d'etude du XVIIIe siecle. 2000. xlix+421 pp. ISBN 2-84559-005-9.
Superlatives come all too easily when reviewing Roland Mortier's work. His prodigious output has comprised, in the decade 1991-2000, well over eighty articles, plus three books and five editions (two of them critical editions of important works by Voltaire). This weighty volume is a rich selection of all that scholarship: twenty-three articles, to which is added a monograph on the Venetian writer Cataneo, originally published in 1965 (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 32: 91-268). The range of topics covered here is no less remarkable: not only Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, and the Encyclopedie, but also such diverse matters as the...
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