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Enemies of the Enlightenment

The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

by Darrin M. McMahon

A history of the French writers who opposed the philosophes before and after 1789. McMahon shows that Barruel's conspiracy thesis grew out of an established Catholic polemic and helped shape the modern political right.

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