Professor Le Mentheour on Embracing the Past to Understand Modern Issues
February 26, 2026
February 26, 2026
BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, Feb. 26 -- Bryn Mawr College posted the following news:
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Professor Le Mentheour on Embracing the Past to Understand Modern Issues
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Back in the mid-2000s, when 18 th -century French literature scholar Rudy Le Mentheour was working on his dissertation on philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he came across a curious treatise: French doctor Charles-Augustine Vandermonde's 1756 Essai sur la maniere de perfectionner . . .
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Professor Le Mentheour on Embracing the Past to Understand Modern Issues
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Back in the mid-2000s, when 18 th -century French literature scholar Rudy Le Mentheour was working on his dissertation on philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he came across a curious treatise: French doctor Charles-Augustine Vandermonde's 1756 Essai sur la maniere de perfectionner . . .