Calvet's Web
This is a study of the correspondence network of an Avignon physician in the period 1750-1810. Esprit Calvet was an antiquarian, natural historian, and bibliophile, and was at the centre of a circle of like-minded intellectuals from various backgrounds, chiefly based in the Rhone valley.
EnlightenmentFrench literature, history and criticism, 18th centuryFrance, intellectual lifeCorrespondencePhysiciansBiographyIntellectual lifeBook collectorsNaturalistsAntiquariansHistory