TY - BOOK AU - Julia,Aurélie TI - Frédéric Lachèvre: A scholar in pursuit of the libertines PY - 2019///. N1 - 91 N2 - Frédéric Lachèvre (1855-1943) was an odd character, spending forty years of his existence dragging the seventeenth-century libertines out of oblivion, not to restore them to glory, but to bury them for a second time. The figure of the inflexible autodidact might seem comical today. But his work takes on a completely different cast once resituated in its own period, the Third Republic, and becomes a landmark in the history of ideas UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-dix-septieme-siecle-2019-2-page-329?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -