Title: Calvet's Web
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.
Subjects: Enlightenment, French literature, history and criticism, 18th century, France, intellectual life, Correspondence, Physicians, Biography, Intellectual life, Book collectors, Naturalists, Antiquarians, History