Louis-Charles Fougeret de Monbron: le cosmopolite, ou le citoyen du monde (1750)
[...]he inherited just enough money to enable him to travel, spend time on the estates of nobles and rulers and earn their protection, at least for a while. "Latria est ubicunque est bene" he wrote, but as he concluded, the world is a book of which he had read a number of pages without fin...
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| Published in | New Zealand journal of French studies Vol. 32; no. 1; p. 57 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Palmerston North
Victoria University Wellington, School of Languages and Cultures
01.05.2011
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| Summary: | [...]he inherited just enough money to enable him to travel, spend time on the estates of nobles and rulers and earn their protection, at least for a while. "Latria est ubicunque est bene" he wrote, but as he concluded, the world is a book of which he had read a number of pages without finding any of them inviting. Edouard Langille supplies a detailed introduction, with both biographical and bibliographical information as well as an evaluation of the book's influence. |
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| ISSN: | 0110-7380 |