Republic of Letters [ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… Legend Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 1684 This increase in movement and communication can be discerned in particular in the ‘numerical explosion of letters,’ where correspondences which used to number in the dozens or hundreds … and scientists, writers and playwrights, but also aristocrats, government officials, military officers, publishers, artisans, and merchants. 7 5 . Daniel Roche, Les Républicains des lettres: Gens de culture et Lumières au XVIIIe siècle … like Voltaire or a layperson, denoting one’s membership in the Republic of Letters through correspondence, was in part what the Enlightenment was all about, ‘these different networks were central to their participants’ identity . One …
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