Abstract:The Old and New Regime in Manuscript Research The article attempts to outline the history of French genetic research upon 18 th-century manuscript collections. Contrary to the stereotypical view of the 18 th century as a period when manuscripts were allegedly destroyed in order to hide evidence of the painstaking execution of the fi nal version of a work, this epoch did leave us manuscripts, frequently full of corrections, which suggest that the Enlightenment thought and literature kept searching and experimen… Show more
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