Nicolas Gueudeville and His Work (1652-172?)
Aubrey Rosenberg (Author)
It is generally agreed that great men transcend their time while ordinary men remain rooted in it. This is why, if we want to know what life was like in days gone by, we must study those who were most representative of their age, those individuals who, though they may have achieved a modicum of fame or notoriety, are now, because of their limited abilities and outlook, largely forgotten. The great figures involved in the political and religious controversies that took of the seventeenth century and the beginning place in Holland! towards the end of the eighteenth, men such as Bayle, Jurieu, Le Clerc and others who were in the forefront of what has been aptly termed as the "crise de la conscience europeenne," these figures have been the object of extensive investigation. The minor personages of this period, on the other hand, have received little attention. For this reason, in a previous study,2 I examined the life and work of one of these minor figures, and tried to show how he was representative of those French Huguenots who came to Holland in the latter half of the seventeenth century, who settled in relatively remote places, and who made an effort to integrate themselves and gain acceptance in Dutch provincial society
eBook, English, 1982
Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 1982
1 online resource (VIII, 285 pages) : online resource
9789400974739, 9400974736
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Printed edition:
I. The life
II. The First Publication
III. L'Esprit des cours de l'Europe
IV. The Critique of Fénelon's Tèlémaque 35 V. Dialogues des morts
VI. Collaborative Works
VII. The Translations
VIII. Works attributed to Gueudeville
Conclusion
Appendix A. Contract of sale of rights to L'Esprit des cours de l'Europe
B. Contract of partnership between Jonas L'Honoré and Thomas Johnson
C. Dissolution of partnership
D. Check-list of editions of critique of Tèlémaque
E. List of editions and locations of the Atlas historique
F. Check-list of editions of L'Eloge de la folie
G. List of editions of L'Utopie
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