The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787

The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787
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Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780889202092
ISBN-13 : 0889202095
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787 by : Geoffrey Adams

The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the Protestant minority was presented to French readers by leading thinkers such as Montesquieu, the abbé Prévost, and Voltaire. By the middle years of the eighteenth century, liberal clerics, lawyers, and government ministers joined Encyclopedists in urging the emancipation of the Reformed who were seen to be loyal, peaceable and productive. Then, in 1787, thanks to intensive lobbying by a group which included Malesherbes, Lafayette, and the future revolutionary Rabaut Saint-Étienne, the government of Louis XVI issued an edict of toleration which granted the Huguenots a modest bill of civil and religious rights. Adams’ illuminating work treats a major chapter in the history of toleration; it explores in depth a fascinating shift in mentalités, and it offers a new focus on the process of “reform from above” in pre-Revolutionary France.

Pirating and Publishing

Pirating and Publishing
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780197529737
ISBN-13 : 0197529739
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Pirating and Publishing by : Robert Darnton

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of "copyright" very much in its infancy. Piracy was entirely legal and everyone acknowledged tacitly or openly that these pirated editions of works by Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, among other luminaries, supplied a growing readership within France, one whose needs could not be met by the monopolistic and tightly controlled Paris Guild. Darnton's book focuses principally on a publisher in Switzerland, one of the largest and whose archives are the most complete. Through the lens of this concern, he offers a sweeping view of the world of writing, publishing, and especially bookselling in pre-Revolutionary France--a vibrantly detailed inside look at a cut-throat industry that was struggling to keep up with the times and, if possible, make a profit off them. Featuring a fascinating cast of characters lofty idealists and down-and-dirty opportunists this new book expands upon on Darnton's celebrated work on book-publishing in France, most recently found in Literary Tour de France. Pirating and Publishing reveals how and why piracy brought the Enlightenment to every corner of France, feeding the ideas that would explode into revolution.

Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 568
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015039347391
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Religious Liberty by : Francesco Ruffini

The Mass and its Mysteries Compared to the Ancient Mysteries

The Mass and its Mysteries Compared to the Ancient Mysteries
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 9781447813088
ISBN-13 : 1447813081
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mass and its Mysteries Compared to the Ancient Mysteries by : Jean-Marie Ragon

This book demonstrates conclusively the identity of the solar and lunar rites of the Greeks, Romans and other peoples, ancient and modern, to the rites of Freemasonry and Christianity. '...a complete demonstration of the incorporation of the Solar and Phallic Mysteries in Christianity.' Aleister Crowley

Confiscations at Customs

Confiscations at Customs
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015064796702
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Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Confiscations at Customs by : Robert L. Dawson

Catalogue

Catalogue
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Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B217394
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Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Catalogue by : Sotheby & Co. (London, England)