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Un écrivain français des lumières oublié : Francisco Xavier de Oliveira (1701-1783)

1995; Volume: 75; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/rhpr.1995.5333

2269-479X

Frédéric Max,

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

F. Max : A forgotten French author of the enlightenment : Francisco Xavier de Oliveira (1701-1783). Francisco Xavier de Oliveira, a Portugese nobleman and diplomat who wrote in French to divulge his liberal ideas, was forced into exile in England where he converted to Protestantism. His numerous writings - censored by the Inquisition in Lissabon - and his conversion sufficed to have him condemned and his effigy burnt in 1761. His response, of which the main chapter, originally published in London, is included in the present article, is a vibrant plea for tolerance.