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Morelly

Étienne-Gabriel Morelly (French: [etjɛn gabʁjɛl mɔʁɛli]; 1717–1778) was a French utopian thinker, philosopher and novelist. An otherwise "obscure tax official", and teacher, Morelly wrote two books on education, a critique of Montesquieu and The Code of Nature, which was published anonymously in France in 1755. This book, initially attributed to philosophes including Rousseau and Diderot, criticised contemporary society, postulated a social order without avarice, and proposed a constitution intended to lead to an egalitarian society without property, marriage, church or police. (From Wikipedia)

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Villegardelle, F. (François), 1810-1856

Books by Morelly:

Morelly: Code de la Nature (in French; Paris: P. Masgana, 1841), contrib. by F. Villegardelle (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by Morelly in the extended shelves:

Morelly: Essai sur l'esprit humain, ou Principes naturels de l'éducation (Chez C.J.-B. Delespine, 1743) (page images at HathiTrust)
Morelly: Grundgesetz der natur (Weidmann, 1846), also by Denis Diderot and Ernst Moritz Arndt (page images at HathiTrust)
Morelly: Institutions du droit de la nature et des gens, dans lesquelles, par une chaine continue, on déduit de la nature même de l'homme, toutes ses obligations & tous ses droits (Chez E. Luzac, 1772), also by Christian Wolff and Elie Luzac (page images at HathiTrust)
Morelly: Le véritable esprit de ses loix, 1755 (Librairie P. Geuthner 68, Rue Mazarine, 68, 1910), also by Denis Diderot and Edouard Dolléans (page images at HathiTrust)
Morelly: Naufrage des isles flottantes ou, Basiliade du célébre. Pilpai, poëme héroïque (Par une société de libraires, 1753) (page images at HathiTrust)

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