LOCKE'S TRAVELS IN FRANCE 1675 - 1679 by John Lough (Editor) ( 9780521080507 )

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LOCKE'S TRAVELS IN FRANCE 1675 - 1679
AS RELATED IN HIS JOURNALS, CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER PAPERS

By:

John Lough (Editor)

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Paperback

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0521080509

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9780521080507

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 June, 2008

Pages:

384

Description:

This book gives a complete account of all that Locke saw, did and heard during his four years in France.

Synopsis:

This book gives a complete account of all that Locke saw, did and heard during his four years in France. The entries vary from laconic jottings to detailed accounts - full of colour and wit - of life in Paris and the provinces. Locke's variety of interests presents a vivid and thorough account of France at that time. He observed and recorded the absolutism of Louis XIV and the poverty of the peasants, the growing persecution of the Protestants and the external manifestations of Catholicism, recent developments in science and technology - even agricultural methods and the system of taxes. So that this is a book for the general reader as well as for the student of Locke, the social historian and the historian of science.

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Cambridge University Press

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