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Autobiography: A Collection Of The Most Instructive And Amusing Lives Ever Published by Jean-François Marmontel. This extensive memoir chronicles Marmontel’s life as a prominent 18th-century French writer and thinker, detailing his childhood, education, and ascent in the literary world through the salons and figures of the Enlightenment. It recounts his relationships with Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Madame Geoffrin, his career producing the Moral Tales and Bélisarius, and his roles as historian and Académie française member. The work intertwines private life—marriage, family, friendships—with public upheavals, from the Age of Enlightenment to the French Revolution, including the fall of the Bastille, the Terror, and the early Republic. Marmontel reflects on art, education, religion, and liberty, while offering intimate portraits of contemporaries such as Necker, D’Alembert, and Grétry, and detailed episodes of court intrigue and salon culture. Rich in personal insight, the memoirs illuminate how a prolific writer navigated political and social change while remaining committed to truth, humanity, and his craft.
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