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305: 20: 136:(1756). This offers a complete digest of all known voyages to the Southern seas, preceded by a long plea for an exploration campaign in these waters, in order to discover and exploit the vast Austral continent which could not fail to be there, for mechanical reasons. It proved extremely useful to 202:
Histoire de la République romaine, dans le cours du VIIe siècle, par Salluste, en partie traduite du latin sur l'original, en partie rétablie et composée sur les fragmens qui sont restés de ses livres perdus
186:(1765). This provides a materialistic theory of the origin and the evolution of language, where the meaning of words is considered as an image of the physiological articulation of sounds (see 389: 225:(1836). This book is a collection of cultured, witty, open-minded letters, sent by De Brosses to his friends in Dijon during his travels in Italy of 1739-1740. It was loved by 364: 61: 277: 160:(1760). This provides a materialistic theory of the origin of religion, and represents one of the first theoretical works in the discipline of ethno- 133:
Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contrées découvertes jusqu'à ce jour
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Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie.
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Lettres sur l'état actuel de la ville souterraine d'Herculée et sur les causes de son ensevelissement sous les ruines du Vésuve
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with respect to the discovery of Australia in 1770, and contains what may be the first occurrence of the words "Polynésie" (
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Du culte des dieux fétiches ou Parallèle de l'ancienne religion de l'Egypte avec la religion actuelle de Nigritie
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of the king, he was exiled twice, in 1744 and 1771. He wrote numerous academic papers on topics concerning
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Traité de la formation méchanique des langues et des principes physiques de l'étymologie
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ou Parallèle de l'ancienne Religion de l'Égypte avec la Religion actuelle de Nigritie
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L'Italie il y a cent ans, ou Lettres écrites d'Italie à quelques amis en 1739 et 1740
198:(1775) and a very important role in the birth of a scientific conception of language. 84: 309: 187: 120:(1750). This contains a list of archeological discoveries from the excavation of 88: 35: 156: 148:). It has been written that it is this book which convinced the French explorer 101: 221: 182: 132: 125: 338: 96: 92: 331:, in CTLF "Corpus des Textes Linguistiques Fondamentaux", Paris-Lyon, 2006. 161: 243:
The Returns of Fetishism: Charles De Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
43:(7 February 1709 – 7 May 1777), was a French scholar of the 18th century. 174: 145: 121: 41:
comte de Tournay, baron de Montfalcon, seigneur de Vezins et de Prevessin
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De Brosses is also remembered for his posthumously published letters:
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Brosses, Charles de. Traité de la formation méchanique des langues
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from 1761. He was a close friend of Georges-Louis Leclerc de
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Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon
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Dijon
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon
Buffon
Histoire Naturelle
Voltaire
absolute power
ancient history
Denis Diderot
D'Alembert
Encyclopédie
Herculaneum
Oscan language
Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, contenant ce que l'on sait des moeurs et des productions des contrées découvertes jusqu'à ce jour
James Cook
Polynesia
Australasia
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Du culte des dieux fétiches ou Parallèle de l'ancienne religion de l'Egypte avec la religion actuelle de Nigritie
anthropology
fétichisme
Karl Marx
Capital
Traité de la formation méchanique des langues et des principes physiques de l'étymologie
Sound Symbolism
Condillac
Sallust
L'Italie il y a cent ans, ou Lettres écrites d'Italie à quelques amis en 1739 et 1740

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