Prof. David Purdie, Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh), will be delivering a talk on the great Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume, whose associations with France were strong and lifelong. A student for three years at the Collège Royal de La Flèche produced his greatest work in philosophy, A Treatise of Human Nature. Later he was a diplomat at the British embassy in Paris and a close friend and correspondent of great French philosophes Denis Diderot, Baron d'Holbach, and Jean d'Alembert. As an example of the esteem in which Hume was held in France, when he met the ten-year-old Duc de Berry (later Louis XVI), the Dauphin said:
It is with a similar pleasure that we invite Prof. Purdie to the Institut during the Semaine de la Francophonie for him to deliver this delightfully insightful talk on David Hume. Event details: David Hume and France Institut français d'Ecosse Access Details Book directly online or contact us at 0131 285 6030 or info ifecosse.org.uk Image: Statue of David Hume by Alexander Stoddart from Institut Français Écosse http://www.ifecosse.org.uk/Talk-David-Hume-and-France.html via IFTTT via https://onlinevideoproduction.tumblr.com/post/183124009847
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