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Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
(1657–1757)

French writer, satirist and philosopher of enlightenment

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Works

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  • Fontenelle's Dialogues of the dead, in three parts. : I. Dialogues of the antients. II. The antients with the moderns. III. The moderns. (Nouveaux dialogues des morts) (1683) (external scan)
  • The history of oracles, and the cheats of the pagan priests: in two parts (Histoire des oracles) (1687), translated by Aphra Behn
  • A Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes) (1686), translated by John Glanvill; as A Discovery of New Worlds (1688) translated by Aphra Behn (transcription project)
  • Traité de la liberté
  • Digression sur les Anciens et les Modernes (1688)
  • Sur l'histoire
  • Du bonheur (1724)
  • Éloge de Monsieur le Maréchal de Vauban in "Histoire du renouvellement de l'Académie royale des sciences en 1699, et les éloges historiques de tous les académiciens morts depuis ce renouvellement, avec un discours préliminaire sur l'utilité des mathématiques et de la physique"
  • "A Treatise upon Pastorals", in Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem (1695), by René le Bossu, translated by Peter Anthony Motteux

Works about Fontenelle

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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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