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Letters on the English. Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) are a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in Great Britain between 1726 and 1729. The book was published first in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as ...
Persian Letters ( French: Lettres persanes) is a literary work, published in 1721, by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two fictional Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who spend several years in France under Louis XIV and the Regency. [1]
The Saint-Germain-des-Prés Library is university library at Université Paris-Cité, located in rue des Saints-Pères, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It is the heir to the sociology library of the University of Paris, founded in 1946 and one of the most important French libraries concerning sociology, linguistics and science education, and to ...
René Descartes ( / deɪˈkɑːrt / day-KART or UK: / ˈdeɪkɑːrt / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3] [11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12] [13] [14] : 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was ...
The shortest known naturally occurring pangrammatic window was discovered in October 2014 through an automated processing of Google's indexed webcorpus, found in a review of the movie Magnolia written by Todd Manlow on the website PopMatters, at 36 letters: [1] Further, fractal geometries are replicated on a human level in the production of ...
Biography[edit] He was born in Paris, the son of Alexandre de Laborde. Educated in Germany, he traveled extensively in Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt, and then entered the French diplomatic service. In 1847 he was made conservator of the Louvre Museum of Antiques, and in 1857 director-general of the archives of the Empire .
Jacques Dinet (1584-1653) was a French Jesuit, confessor to Louis XIII and an associate of René Descartes. Life. He was born at Moulins, nephew of Gaspard Dinet who was bishop of Mâcon. He knew Descartes from La Flèche, where for some of the time he supervised Descartes's studies as principal prefect.
Catherine Descartes (1637–1706) was a French poet and philosopher, and the niece of French philosopher René Descartes. [1] A prominent figure in the French salon movement, her best known works included "Shade of Descartes" ( "L'Ombre de Descartes") and Report on the Death of M. Descartes, the Philosopher. [1] [2] She was also interviewed by ...