Front cover image for "Les Sauvages Ameriquains": Persistence into the XVIIIth Century of Traditional French Concepts for Comprehending Amerindians

"Les Sauvages Ameriquains": Persistence into the XVIIIth Century of Traditional French Concepts for Comprehending Amerindians

Uses examples from literature and history to discuss the persistence into the eighteenth century, generally considered the time of the Enlightenment, of traditional French literary concepts and intellectual constructs for understanding the New World and its people

Article, 1984