Prélude au siècle des Lumières en France

With the appearance of the final volume of the Siècle, containing the last part of the Index des auteurs, this mighty enterprise, ranging over four decades, is at last concluded. Professor Conlon had already completed a comprehensive Bibliography, Ouvrages français relatifs à Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1751–1799 (Geneva: Droz, 1981) — this appeared later than the Prélude — which, containing over a thousand items, might have been deemed a life's work in itself. The Prélude, however, was of a different order, covering a quarter-century and running to sixteen thousand entries. Here Pierre Conlon announces the essential lineaments that will be followed again in the larger Bibliographie chronologique. He will include all first editions published ‘par des Français’ (therefore also those written by authors outside France, such as, most notably, Pierre Bayle) and including anonymous works (which will swell hugely in the pre-Revolution years). Only purely administrative documents will

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