A4 Refereed article in a conference publication

'Un admirateur des philosophes modernes': the networks of Swedish ambassador Gustav Philip Creutz in Paris, 1766-1783




AuthorsCharlotta Wolff

EditorsChloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein

Publishing placeOxford

Publication year2019

Book title Networks of Enlightenment. Digital approaches to the Republic of Letters

Series titleOxford University Studies in the Enlightenment

First page 173

Last page200

ISBN978 1 78694 196 1

ISSN0435-2866


Abstract

This chapter analyses the social networks of the Swedish diplomat Count Gustav Philip Creutz (1731-1785) during his embassy to France. The main source is the Contrôle des étrangers series, which contains weekly police reports on the diplomat's frequentations and whereabouts, allowing for a statistical study. The source shows an aristocratic and cosmopolitan network, where the radical circlew close to the Encyclopédie nevertheless had a given place. As the analysis closes in on Creutz's contacts with philosophers, writers and other intellectuals, the study also discusses the relationship between worldly sociability and philosophical engagement in the age of Enlightenment.



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