I am Director of the Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Correspondence Project, funded by the AHRC, the British Academy ( the project has British Academy Research Project status), the MHRA. The Correspondence is being published in Oxford and will form part of the Electronic Enlightenment project, to be distributed worldwide by Oxford University Press. The Bernardin corpus is massive (nearly 3000 letters) and the edition will radically change our perception of this important figure. In the letters we see Bernardin as an author, of course, but also as a scientist, an administrator, a line manager, a husband and father and an individual fighting for the literary rights of his fellow authors. The correspondence will interest a wide variety of readers: specialists of the French Enlightenment, of course, but also those interested in the history of science, the politics of the French Revolution, social history and even art history. We are also working on a new edition of the the complete works of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre that is being published by Garnier in Paris.

• Critique, Critiques au 18e siècle, University of Exeter, September 2004.