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2005
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Daniel Roche, « Les chevaux des Philosophes : livres, culture équestre et société au 18e siècle », Dix-Huitième Siècle (documents), ID : 10.3406/dhs.2005.2663
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Daniel Roche seeks to understand how the Philosophes of the 18th century were unable to escape the presence of the horse in all their social, economic and politico-military dealings. Thanks to retrospective English, French, American and German bibliographies of the 1 9th and 20th centuries, along with contemporary letters, this work allows one to gauge the importance of equine culture in the 18th century. From Buffon, author of the unforgettable portrait of the horse in his Histoire Naturelle, to Diderot's article in the Encyclopédie ; it is a means of analysing how a section of printed culture, based around equestrian art, military art, history and the whole of natural science and technical knowledge succeeds in placing itself at the centre of activities and representations of the needs, the pleasure and the affirmation of power.