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Montesquieu: memoire de la critique.(Book review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20060101
Author:Cox, Iris

Montesquieu: memoire de la critique. Ed. by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger. Paris: Presses de l'Universitede Paris-Sorbonne. 2003. 600 pp. 944. ISBN 2-84050-230-5.

This collection gives the reader a fair taste of the reception given (almost exclusively in France) from 1721 to 1787 to Montesquieu's published works. There are extracts from private letters to the author (from e.g. Desmolets, Henault), letters between other correspondents (e.g. Voltaire, Rousseau, Delphin de Lamothe, Lord Chesterfield, Horace Walpole) as well as from contemporary reviews such as the Memoires de ...

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