La constitution d'un recueil de textes clandestins

Jean-Louis Quantin : A collection of clandestine works. The Sélestat Bibliothèque Humaniste possesses a collection of clandestine philosophical treatises which was hitherto unknown (ms 216). An examination of this collection clarifies important points in the history of certain works, in particular Dumarsais's Le philosophe. The collection also reflects the interests and curiosity of the person who copied them, who was obvioiusly anxious to make as complete an anti-christian collection as possible, to the extent of including two separate extracts from Meslier.Quantin Jean-Louis. La constitution d'un recueil de textes clandestins. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°26, 1994. Economie et politique. pp. 349-364