The Style of Paris, livre ebook

The voices of liberty, equality, religious tolerance, reason, and enlightenment heard in renaissance Paris.

" . . . impressive and challenging reevaluation of the sixteenth-century origins of the Enlightenment." —Sixteenth Century Journal

In this book, George Huppert introduces the reader to a group of talented young men, some of them teenagers, who were the talk of the town in Renaissance Paris. They called themselves philosophes, they wrote poetry, they studied Greek and mathematics—and they entertained subversive notions concerning religion and politics. Classically trained, they wrote, nevertheless, in French, so as to reach the widest possible audience. These young radicals fostered a succession of disciples who expressed confidence in the eventual enlightenment of humankind and whose ideas would bear fruit two centuries later.

1. Portrait of a Discrete Philosophe
2. In Monsieur Brinon's Garden
3. A School for Scandal
4. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
5. Historical Research in the Service of Philosophy
6. Optimi Auctores
7. Dangerous Classes
8. Ex Tenebras Lux
9. The Republic of Letters
Notes
Bibliography
Index