Enemies of the Enlightenment
Subtitle: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 23, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195136852
First sentence: On the night of the opening of Voltaire's Irene, a small "cabal . . . excited principally by men dressed in the costumes of abbes" mingled with the enthusiastic onlookers who had come to pay tribute to the great philosophe.