A WICKED COMPANY

A Wicked Company tells the remarkable story of Baron Thierry Holbachs Parisian salon, an epicenter of freethinking that brought tog ether the greatest minds of the 18th century. Over wine-soaked dinner parties, the finest intellectuals of the Western worldfigures such as Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole, and Benjamin Franklinmatched wits and scanda lized one another with their own ever-more-provocative ideas. Writers of genius all, full of wit and courage (but also personal cont radictions,...[Read more]