Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World

by Sara E. Johnson

If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469676915
• ISBN13: 9781469676913
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.5"