Jonathan Sumption

Setting the world to rights

Jonathan Sumption finds that the philosophes of the French Enlightenment shared little with one another and even less with the revolutionaries who followed them

  • Wicked Company: Freethinkers and Friendship in Pre-Revolutionary Paris

    Philipp Blom

    Weidenfeld, pp. 384

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