Abstract: Villers’s correspondence with the German librarian and scholar Johann Hugo Wyttenbach gives an insight into the confluence of two differently anchored forms of Kantianism at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century. Villers’s antirevolutionary reading of Kant informed by royalist attitudes remaining unshaken and Wyttenbach’s more republican and anti-feudal approach converge to the same extent as the Napoleonic regime develops into a military dictatorship and shows its true colours.
