LINGUET, Simon Nicolas Henri.

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Histoire du siécle d'Alexandre, First edition. Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet (1736-1794) was a French journalist and lawyer "whose delight in taking views opposing everyone else's earned him exiles, imprisonment, and finally the guillotine" (Encyclopaedia Britannica online). The present work, the author's first, is a highly hostile account of Alexander the Great, whom the author places as causing far more deaths than Nero, and yet has been given an undeserved favourable light by history.

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