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Tableau du meilleur gouvernement possible ou l'Utopie de Thomas Morus, chancelier d'Angleterre. En deux livres. Traduction nouvelle, dédiée à S.E.M. le Comte de Vergennes, Ministre des Affaires Étrangères. Par M.T. Rousseau

1780 Subjects: Politics and government, Utopias Forms: Fiction Translation Status: Abridged, Retranslation French Paris URL

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Thomas More

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Thomas Rousseau
translator
Louis Cellot
publisher

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Du meilleur gouvernement possible, ou La nouvelle isle d'Utopie de Thomas Morus. Traduction nouvelle. Seconde édition, avec des notes. Par M. T. Rousseau translation has paratext

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Notes

The translator omits More's jokey, prefatory materials that frame the fantastic nature of the text. These include a sample of the Utopian alphabet, a specimen of poetry and its translation, another poem by "the Poet Laureate, Mr Windbag", nephew of the narrator Raphael Hythlodaeus (Nonsenso), and More's letter to Peter Gilles, the publisher, and Gilles' letter to Busleiden, all contributing to the literary conceit of Raphael's discovery of this island where he stayed for five years.