MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot de.

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Entretiens de Phocion, First edition, further editions followed in 1766 and 1767; published in English in 1769 as Phocion's Conversations, or, the Relation between Morality and Politics. The major work of the French philosopher and writer Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-1785), a series of dialogues with the 4th century BC Athenian statesman Phocion. Mably's works exerted a wide influence on political thought in eighteenth-century France and on Jean-Jacques Rousseau in particular, who, at one time, was a tutor to the Mably family.

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