Pierre Conlon
Fellow
Current Employer
McMaster University
Election Year
1969
Academy
Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Discipline
Literature
Department
Department of French
Keywords
Bibliography, history of ideas
Dr. Conlon, a graduate of Auckland and Paris, has taught at Birmingham, Wellington, Yale and McMaster, and is internationally known for his books and articles on 18th century French literature. He is a world authority on Voltaire. Former pupils in high academic posts on three continents and an invitation to be a principal speaker at the 1967 international conference on the Enlightenment at St. Andrews are eloquent tributes to his scholarship. His "Siècle des lumières" (Geneva, 1983 -in progress) is recognized internationally as a standard work on the subject.
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