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L'abbé Grégoire, son legs : six concours pour la liberté et l'égalité
2000
Gregoire's last will and testament called for the organization of six awards to be granted on the basis of written competitions on subjects that included reflections upon despotism, slavery, liberties, and equality, the themes of the struggles that had engaged Gregoire. Although the quality of the essays that resulted were not up to the level that the abbot had no doubt hoped for, the competition relative to the means of fighting the prejudice of color was the occasion to open a large debate and to launch the French abolitionist movement.
"I filosofi e il timore. Superstizione, tirannide e paura della morte nell'Encyclopédie"
2008
International audience