Les lumières au-delà des Alpes et des Pyrénées

This meeting came from the desire to bring together researchers interested in the problem of the circulation of ideas as people between France, Italy and the Iberian peninsula during the eighteenth century. The term "enlightenment" is used in its broader meaning of philosophical and common sense, while recalling that the "Enlightenment" also meantrelated to a specific geographical area, the values of France. However, in one way or the other, this is a flexible approach by bracketing the common reference of Paris as a central distribution point of the Enlightenment, but opting for the opening up of the disciplines. In sum, the participants took a privileged perspective of Enlightenment in which Italy, Spain and Portugal are perceived as active centers of the Enlightenment. It appeared throughout the discussions that intellectual ferment is to be seen both in philosophy and in cultural history.