Laurence BrocklissLaurence Brockliss is emeritus professor of early modern French History at the University of Oxford whose principal area of research is the Republic of Letters and the Enlightenment. His books in the field include French Higher Education in the Seveteenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1987) and Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford, 2002). Read More Read Less