Arrests de la Cour de Parlement, portant condamnation de plusieurs livres & autres ouvrages imprime s
Subtitle: Extrait des Registres de Parlement du 23 janvier 1759
Contributors: Ysabeau, Claude-Alexandre, 1754-1831; Helve tius, 1715-1771; Voltaire, 1694-1778; Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784
Publisher: Chez P.G. Simon
Published: 1759
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Prohibited books; Early works to 1800; Censorship
Other titles: Registres (France. Conseil d'Etat); Encyclope die, ou Dictionnaire raisonne  de sciences.
Description: The court ordered the suppression and public burning of seven works: De l'esprit, by Helvétius; Le pirrhonisme du sage, by Louis de Beausobre; La philosophie du bon sens, by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens; La religion naturelle (Poème sur la loi naturelle), by Voltaire; Lettres semi-philosophiques du chevalier de ** au comte de **, by Jean-Baptiste Pascal; Étrennes des esprits forts (a new edition of Pensées philosophiques, by Denis Diderot, with an appended anonymous "Epître philosophique en vers à un philosophe"); and Lettre au R.P. Berthier, sur le matérialisme, by Gabriel François Coyer. In addition, the seven volumes published to date of Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers were referred to a panel of experts for further examination and ordered suppressed in the interim.
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Signed: Ysabeau.

Woodcuts: large head-pieces, initial.

Condemns 8 works, including De l'esprit, by Helve tius; Diderot's Encyclope die; La religion naturelle, by Voltaire; and Etrennes des esprits forts, by Diderot.