TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations 7
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction 13
Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue 13
Historical Background 17
The Huguenots 17
Huguenot Refuge in the United Provinces of the Netherlands 19
Jews in France 22
Jews in the United Provinces of the Netherlands 23
Republic of Letters and Its Scholarly Journals 35
The Gazettes 38
Notions of Privacy and Private Life 40
Methodology 41
Part I. Jewish Image in the Scholarly Journals 43
Nouveau journal des sçavans 43
Journal littéraire 51
Histoire critique de la République des Lettres 57
Part II. Jewish Image in the French-Language Dutch Lay Gazettes 73
L’année burlesque ou recueil des pieces 73
L’esprit des cours de l’Europe 89
Part III. Non-Christians in Scholarly Journals and Gazettes 93
Islam 93
The Ottoman Turks 96
The Kingdom of Siam 101
Conclusion 107
Bibliography 111
Primary Sources 111
Secondary Literature 113
Webography 120
Index Nominum 121
Index Locorum 123