The French Enlightenment writer Denis Diderot wrote in an essay that ‘from fanaticism to barbarism is only one step’. The ...

In French Enlightenment: Repurposing the Past, eds. Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee, forthcoming 2025 in the series Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment.

I specialise in the long eighteenth century in France, covering the French Enlightenment and the French Revolution. I have worked a lot on late eighteenth-century French literature (Chamfort, Laclos, ...

Toussaint read widely, immersing himself in writings from the Greek philosophers to Julius Caesar and Guillaume Raynal, a French Enlightenment thinker who inveighed against slavery. In 1776 ...