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The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Cure (Hardcover)
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The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Cure (Hardcover)
Series: Archives Internationales D'histoire Des Idees./International Archives of the History of Ideas, v.151
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This publication comprises the 170 letters written by the Abbe
Dominique Chaix to Dr Dominique Villars between 1772 and 1799, when
they were collaborating on the publication of the first flora for
the old province of Dauphine. The letters reveal the uncertainties
of plant classification in the late-18th century, but, more
generally, the penetration of the Enlightenment into a remote,
alpine region of France. Both botanists were of recent peasant
origin, invading, albeit deferentially, an intellectual field,
traditionally the monopoly of their social betters. The letters
also document the enthusiasms, anxieties, and perils of rural
clerical life during the French Revolution, and give occasional
evidence about the deforestation of the mountains.
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