Un homme, deux cultures Charles de Villers entre France et Allemagne (1765-1815)

Among the intellectuals who fostered exchanges between France and Germany at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Lorraine native Charles de Villers (1765–1815) occupies a central place. He was a journalist, essayist, translator, and professor and, at the heart of the networks of learned Germany, he was the man with two cultures.