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French: Enlightenment

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Gallica: La Bibliotheque Numérique
A digital library maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science
EuroDocs: France
Primary documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
The Super Enlightenment
A project of Stanford University. This digital archive explores the writings of French authors who went beyond John Locke's famed "limits of human understanding," in order to investigate the mysterious perimeters of knowledge — but often progressed with the same concerns as Parisian philosophes.

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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by Michel Delon (Editor)
Call Number: Mary I Pew 2nd floor B802 .D491613 2001
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by Michel Delon (Editor); Philip Stewart (Translator)
Call Number: In print, Mary I Pew 2nd floor: B802 .D491613 2001
The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment by John W. Yolton (Editor); Roy Porter (Editor); Pat Rogers (Editor); Barbara Marie Stafford (Editor)
Call Number: In print, Mary I Pew 2nd floor: CB411 .B57 1992
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment by Daniel Brewer (Editor)
ISBN: 9781107021488