TY  - BOOK
AU  - Volpilhac-Auger,Catherine
TI  - The Montesquieu manuscripts: A house of cards
PY  - 2019///.
							
N1  - 48
N2  - The Montesquieu manuscripts have become an object of study per se over the last twenty years. Their characteristics, and in particular their dating, have fuelled a crucial debate in relation to critical editions. New light has been cast on Montesquieu’s method as writer – philosopher, thanks to Chabannes’s dating (several hundreds of documents transferred to the municipal library at Bordeaux in 1994). The date of several of his manuscripts ( Pensées, Collectio juris, Spicilège) has now radically changed thanks to a close investigation and scrutiny of his papers as well as a finer understanding of his biography: his working method in the works mentioned can now be given fresh consideration
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-dix-huitieme-siecle-2019-1-page-379?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -