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Notes

1 Perhaps most noteworthy, The Enlightenment in National Context, ed. Roy S. Porter and Mikuláš Teich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

2 Robert Darnton, Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).

3 http://fbtee.uws.edu.au/stn/interface/query_places.php?t=book&e=rawsales&id=spbk0000768&d1=01&m1=01&y1=1769&d2=31&m2=12&y2=1794&g=town&d=table (accessed May 19, 2022). On the StN, see Mark Curran, The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, Vol. 1, Selling Enlightenment (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018); Simon Burrows, The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe. Vol. 2, Enlightenment Bestsellers (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), along with the relevant books and articles by Robert Darnton found at his website, https://wayback.archive-it.org/5488/20210325115631/http://robertdarnton.org/. Of course, some non-French readers preferred to read a French-language edition, even when a translation was readily available. Twenty-six-year-old Thomas Jefferson passed up Thomas Nugent’s popular English translation for a three-volume French-language edition published in London. “To Thomas Jefferson from Perkins, Buchanan & Brown, October 2, 1769”, in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1,1760–1776, ed. Julian P. Boyd (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950), 33–34, and available online at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0022 (accessed March 7, 2022). Jefferson acquired Oeuvres de Monsieur de Montesquieu, 3 vols. (London: Nourse, 1767).

4 Joan McDonald, Rousseau and the French Revolution (London: Athlone Press, 1965) for the older view.

5 Gary Kates, The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).

6 David Hume, “My Own Life”, in Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, ed. Eugene F. Miller (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1985), xxxiv.

7 ARTFL: https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/; Electronic Enlightenment: https://www.e-enlightenment.com/; Eighteenth Century Collections Online: https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/eighteenth-century-collections-online; The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe: http://fbtee.uws.edu.au/main/; MEDIATE: Understanding the Literary System of the Eighteenth Century: https://mediate18.nl/?page=database.