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Early Modern · 1681
Discourse on Universal History
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet · 1627–1704
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What it is
World history written for the dauphin as a single providential design running from creation through Israel and Rome to the church of the present.
Why it lasted
The last great providential history in the Augustinian manner, and the target against which Voltaire and the Enlightenment defined themselves.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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