1762 in literature

Events

June: The North Briton , weekly magazine of John Wilkes (1727-1797).
the Gazette , the first weekly magazine French (1631) is repurchased by Choiseul, which makes of it the Gazette of France .
Swiss Foundation in of a Swiss Company for freedom and the tolerance .
Installation of the cabinet of the Charters in the royal library with Paris.
Return in France of the French orientalist Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (1731 -1805). Left to research the zoroastriens taken refuge in India, it brings back of it the Avesta and fifty Upanishads. It translates into French and publishes Avesta in 1771, four Upanishads in 1776 then translated the fifty Latin Upanishads in 1802 under the title of Oupnekhat .

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Publication with London of historical Description of Guinea , of Antoine Bénézet, huguenot French emigrant in America, which inquires there into the trade of the slaves and its effects.

the French Philosopher and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes social Contract , treated political.

Novels

the Citizen of the world , epistolary novel of Oliver Goldsmith.

Emile or Of education , novel of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. the Emile is condemned by the archbishop of Paris Beaumont and Rousseau is constrained with the exile (Suisse, Prussia, Great Britain).

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