List of works by Fontenelle
This is a list of Fontenelle's works . Translations of works by the influential and versatile French writer and enlightener Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) were already compiled in German in 1751 by Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766), who had previously translated and commented on various of his works . The following list does not claim to be complete (some German translations have been added):
Fontenelle, portrait by Nicolas de Largillière
selection
- Dialogues des morts anciens (Talks with the dead)
- Jugement de Pluton sur les Dialogues des morts (Pluto's judgment on the funeral talks)
- Lettres galantes (gallant letters)
- Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Conversations on the plurality of worlds)
- Histoire des oracles (history of the oracles)
- Histoire du Théâtre français (History of French Theater)
- Vie de Pierre Corneille (The Life of Pierre Corneille)
- Réflexions sur la poétique (reflections on poetics)
- Discours sur la patience (discourse on patience)
- De l'existence de Dieu (On the existence of God)
- You bonheur (from happiness)
- De l'origine des fables (From the origin of fables)
- Discours devant l'Académie (speeches in front of the academy)
- Lettres (letters)
- Eglogue (eclogue)
- Poésies pastorales (pastoral poetry)
- Discours sur la nature (discourse on nature)
- Digression sur les Anciens et les Modernes (excursus on the ancient and modern)
- Thétis et Pelée (Thetis and Peleus)
- Enée et Lavinie (Aeneas and Lavinia)
- Poésies (poems)
- Histoire de l'Académie des Sciences (History of the Academy of Sciences)
- Eloges
- Doutes sur le systèmes physique des causes occasionnelles (doubt about the physical systems of the occasional causes)
- Théorie des tourbillons (theory of vortices)
- Fragments d'un traité de la raison humaine (fragments of a treatise on human reason)
- De la connaissance de l'esprit humain (Of the knowledge of the human spirit)
- Sur l'instinct (About instinct)
- Sur l'histoire (About the story)
- Idalie
- Macate
- Le Tyran (The Tyrant)
- Abdolonine
- Le Testament (The Testament)
- Henriette
- Lysianasse
- Sur la poésie en général (On poetry in general)
- Discours
- Histoire du Romieu
- Psyche
- Bellerophon
- Le Retour de Climène (The Return of Climène)
- Enones
Individual evidence
- ↑ chapitre.com - accessed August 28, 2018
literature
- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bouyer de: Exquisite writings, namely from more than one world, conversations of the dead, and the history of the Heydnian oracles ; previously published individually, but now with various additions and beautiful coppers more than Licht provided by Johann Christoph Gottsched. Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1751 ( digitized )