Author

Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Pierre Louis Maupertuis is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Michelet’s History of France., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Essays
Documented: 1845

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“The same part of Brittany (St. Malo, Dinan, and St. Bileuc) which in Louis the Fifteenth’s day, produced the unbelievers Duclos, Maupertuis, and Lamètrie”

Michelet’s History of France. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Pierre Louis Maupertuis

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1845—

Michelet’s History of France.

“Michelet’s History of France.”

mentioned

“The same part of Brittany (St. Malo, Dinan, and St. Bileuc) which in Louis the Fifteenth’s day, produced the unbelievers Duclos, Maupertuis, and Lamètrie”

Fuller, Margaret. "Michelet’s History of France." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 May 1845. · 20 May 1845