Lives in Electronic Enlightenment
EE pulls together the conversations of over 6,600 correspondents, representing roughly 40 nationalities and nearly 700 occupations — and the list grows monthly! We are in effect creating a concise international dictionary of people from the late 17th through the early 19th centuries. At present, the earliest and latest correspondents are:
- Étienne Charlet (1570–1652), French Jesuit theologian
- Étienne Charlet (1570–1652), French Jesuit theologian
... a teacher at the College of La Flèche, where Descartes had been his pupil (1606–1614). He went on to become head of the Jesuits in Paris and assistant to the head of the Jesuits in Rome. He appears to have been of some help in smoothing the way for Descartes' philosophy in the Catholic Church....
- Charles Yriarte (1832–1898), French author, newspaper editor and historian
- Charles Yriarte (1832–1898), French author, newspaper editor and historian
... studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts; inspector of government buildings 1856; reporter for Le Monde illustré, he acted as a war correspondent for the Spanish-Moroccan War of 1859; editor of Le Monde illustré 1862–1871; after resigning as editor he devoted his time largely to travel and writing....
Linking lives...
The growing mass of biographical information you will find here — much of it inaccessible anywhere else on the Web — is being further developed by a growing number of internal links between biographies and documents in EE.
The connections between lives and documents allow you to trace historical networks of correspondence and relationship: uncover unexpected links across continents and social divides; discover how people are linked not just by ties of family (mother/daughter, father/son, aunt/nephew, cousin-to-cousin…) but in many other ways as well:
- friends and enemies;
- students and teachers;
- authors, editors and publishers;
- patrons and protégés.
We are pleased now to offer a FREE INDEX of the thousands of people, great and small, who appear in EE!