Table of Contents

Part 1 Natural utopias: Supplement to Bougainville's voyage, Denis Diderot (introduction by Marcel Henaff); On the education of women, Choderlos de Laclos (introduction by Chantal Thomas). Part 2 Oriental dreams: The sofa, Crebillon fils (introduction by Jean Sgard); The indiscreet jewels, Denis Diderot (introduction by Chantal Thomas); The story of a modern Greek woman, Abbe Prevost (introduction by Joan DeJean). Part 3 Ways of the world: No tomorrow, Vivant denon (introduction by Catherine Cusset; The Wayward head and heart, Crebillon fils (introduction by catherine Cusset; Dangerous liaisons, Choderlos de laclos (introduction by Michel Feber; Florville and Courval, Marquis de Sade (introduction by Marcel Henaff; a selected chronology of eighteenth-century France.

About the Author

Michel Feher, a Belgian philosopher, is the author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community and the editor of Nongovernmental Politics and Europe at a Crossroads, among other titles. Founder of Cette France-là, a monitoring group on French immigration policy, Feher is also a founding editor of Zone Books.