Calvet's Web
Subtitle: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 6, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780199247486
First sentence: Esprit-Claude-Francois Calvet was born in the papal enclave of Avignon on 28 November 1728 at 6 p.m. with two teeth.
Description: This is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley.