id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9864 Guillaume Thomas François Raynal - Wikipedia .html text/html 1604 201 66 He was educated at the Jesuit school of Pézenas, and received priest's orders, but he was dismissed for unexplained reasons from the parish of Saint-Sulpice, Paris.[citation needed] He became a writer and journalist, leaving the religious life.[1] The Abbé Raynal wrote for the Mercure de France, and compiled a series of popular but superficial works, which he published and sold himself. He had the assistance of various members of the philosophe côteries in his most important work, L'Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies[4] Amsterdam, 4 vols., 1770[1]). Its introduction into France was forbidden in 1779; the book was burned by the public executioner, and an order was given for the arrest of the author, whose name had not appeared in the first edition, but was printed on the title page of the Geneva edition of 1780.[2] Seven new maps for the 1798 English edition were engraved by Thomas Kitchin, Jr.[1] Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9864.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9864.txt