This 5th and ultimate quantity completes the serious variation of the letters of French thinker Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771), writer of the arguable De l'Esprit (1758), and of his spouse, née Anne Catherine de Ligniville (1722-1800), who ran her personal salon in Auteuil after her husband's loss of life. the fundamental part during this final quantity is the distinctive index - an fundamental software for researchers who desire to make complete use of the correspondence. the quantity additionally comprises 4 new letters stumbled on because the visual appeal of the 1st 4 volumes, errata, additions and changes to the serious equipment, the textual content of letters excluded from the version right, genealogies of the households of Helvétius and his spouse, and a chronological checklist of all letters pointed out within the edition.
The past volumes of this variation have loved foreign acclaim. "All scholars of the French Enlightenment might be deeply indebted to D.W. Smith and his staff for this fantastically conceived and arranged collaborative fulfillment. while whole the Toronto Helvétius will rank one of the really extraordinary examples of twentieth-century editorial and bibliographical scholarship." (David Williams, French Studies)
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