The Enlightenment in practice : academic prize contests and intellectual culture in France, 1670-1794 /
Public academic prize contests-the concours académique-played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays for s...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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