Includes articles on architecture, cultural history, the ‘Luxury debate’ in the eighteenth century, Rousseau, and the manuscript of The Life of John Wilkes with commentary and contextualisation. I. Architecture Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Les académies face à la question des techniques en architecture (de la fin du XVIIe siècle à 1750) James W.P. Campbell, Wren, architectural research and the history of trades in the early Royal Society Olga Medvedkova, La Maison de Glace, ou l’architecture comme science expérimentale Jorge Galindo Díaz, The Royal Academy of Mathematics in Barcelona and the trade-guild tradition crisis (1720-1793) Hélène Rousteau-Chambon, L’enseignement des mathématiques dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle au sein de l’Académie royale d’architecture Anthony Gerbino, The Académie royale des sciences and the gardens of Versailles II. Cultural history Reed Benhamou, Sociabilité and the écoles de dessin Isabelle C. Demarte, Détournements d’auteur: les surprises de l’épistolarité dans la Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie de Denis Diderot Stéphane Roy, The art of trade and the economics of taste: the English print market in Paris, 1770-1800 Fabienne Moore, 1711: the advent of Homer in French prose – an anatomy of Mme Dacier’s ground-breaking translation III. Luxury in the eighteenth century Felicia Gottmann, Materialism and morality: Diderot and Sade in light of the luxury debate Antoine Hatzenberger, Luxe d’ostentation et luxe de mollesse: la critique rousseauiste des carrosses Ralph R. McLean, Storming the castle of indolence: rescuing virtue from luxury in the works of James Thomson and Thomas Blackwell Matthew Niblett, The death of Puritanism? Protestant Dissent and the problem of luxury in eighteenth-century England IV. Autobiography Carol Merriam and John Sainsbury (ed.) The Life of John Wilkes V. Rousseau Nathan Martin, An unknown Rousseau autograph: the Neuchâtel manuscript of NOTES, en Musique