"Invasion" and "Strange World" in the eighteenth century France---Thenmatic Studies by Texts and Plates

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The purpose of this study is to explore the culture and thought of the eighteenth-century France as revealed by many works (texts and illustrations) of this time. Our starting point is the fact that the genealogical tree of all forms of knowledge given in the firt volume of l'Encyclopedie, have left an indelibile mark on French and European literature and thought in the second half of the eighteenth-century.By choosing the theme of the classification who runs throughout the whole production of this century, we can expose the constitutive elements of the time as follows :1. History of the water wheel2. Passion for the classification3. The Encyclopedie - Texts and Plates4. Behind the everyday life - invasion of privacy, family life, rehabilitation of passions, crime and punishment5. Discovery of the cross section - underground, anatomy, mechanism of machines6. Up to the sky - history of the balloon7. Age of the natural history - Grad Tour, accounts and literature of travels, picture books of natural history8. Teratology and utopia