Histoire du siècle d’Alexandre le Grand

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His early writings include Histoire du siècle d’Alexandre le Grand (1762), in which he declared that Nero caused far fewer deaths than Alexander the Great, and Le Fanatisme des philosophes (1764; “The Fanaticism of the Philosophes”), a violent attack on the most widely held doctrines of the Enlightenment. In…
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