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Article: Le Siecle des Lumieres: bibliographie chronologique.(Book review)

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Le Siecle des Lumieres: bibliographie chronologique. By PIERRE M. CONLON. Vol. XXIII: 1788. (Histoire des Idees et Critique Litteraire, 419) Geneva: Droz. 2005. xxvii+456 pp. SwF 132. ISBN 2-600-01031-9.

Pierre Conlon has almost completed his invaluable bibliography. But before his immense task culminates with the final account of 1789, this volume collates the publications at the Ancien Regime's momentous end. The febrile atmosphere of a country on the cusp of revolution prompted a great rise in publications, from a total of 1944 in 1786, to 2882 in 1787, to 4190 in 1788; such is the explosion in the number of publications that this is the first volume in the ...

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