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French science under a benign bureaucracy

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Science and Polity in France at the End of the Old Regime.

By Charles Coulston Gillispie. Pp.601. ISBN 0-691-08233-2. (Princeton University Press: 1981). $52.50, £28.20.

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  1. Reader in the History of Science at the University of Lancaster and President of the British Society for the History of Science. His most recent book, co-edited with George Weisz, is The Organization of Science and Technology in France, 1808–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1980).

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