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Jean-Jacques Rousseau traducteur de Tacite Édition critique bilingue

  • Publication type: Book
  • Scientific editor: Volpilhac-Auger (Catherine)
  • Abstract: Rousseau held back from publishing his translation of Book I of Tacitus’ Histories, which he completed in 1754. Was he right to be ashamed of it? Not in the slightest. Indeed, much of his translation is of high literary quality.
  • Number of pages: 301
  • Parution: 03-01-2023
  • Reprint of the edition of: 1995
  • Collection: Reading the Eighteenth Century, n° 17
  • CLIL theme: 3439 -- LITTÉRATURE GÉNÉRALE -- Oeuvres classiques -- Moderne (<1799)
  • EAN: 9782406135982
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-13598-2
  • ISSN: 1158-8748
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13600-2
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 03-01-2023
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Translation, antiquity, eighteenth century, draft copy, manuscript, Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt, Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye, Jean-Henri Dotteville, Jean le Rond d’Alembert
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