Index to Literature of the Enlightenment
By Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D.
Apres nous, le déluge.
This page should be supplemented by the Restoration and Eighteenth Century Page, which lists British authors of this period. For the most part, British authors will not be listed here, nor will Americans. *Please note that this list consists mostly of carefully selected outside links to the individual authors.
*René Descartes ( 1596 - 1650 ).
Calderón de la Barca ( 1600 - 1681 ).
*Pierre Corneille ( 1606 - 1684 ).
*La Rochefoucauld ( 1613 - 1680 ).
*Jean De La Fontaine ( 1621 - 1695 ).
*Molière ( 1622 - 1673 ).
*Blaise Pascal ( 1623 - 1662 ).
*Nicolas Boileau ( 1636 - 1711 ).
*Marie De La Fayette ( 1639 - 1693 ).
*Jean Racine ( 1639 - 1699 ).
*Sor Juana de la Cruz ( 1651 - 1695 ).
*Alain René Le Sage ( 1668 - 1747 ).
*Montesquieu ( 1689 - 1755 ).
*Voltaire ( 1694 - 1778 ).
*Carlo Goldoni ( 1707 - 1793 ).
Updated 10/29/09
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