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VERTOT (Abbé René Aubert de). REVOLUTIONS de Portugal. A Paris. 1749. - VERTOT (Abbé René Aubert de) REVOLUTIONS de Portugal . Troisième édition, revuë & augmentée. A Paris: Chez Nyon, Place Conty, au premier Pavillon des quatre Nations, à Ste. Monique, 1749. viii, 342 pp.; 150 mm. René Aubert de Vertot (Bennetot, Normandy, 1655; Paris, 1735), clergyman and historian, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since 1703, is best known for his works of narrative political history. At the request of Fontenelle and the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, he wrote in 1690 the Histoire de la conjuration de Portugal , which narrated the restoration of Portuguese independence in 1640 and the fall of Miguel de Vasconcelos. Its success was immediate, followed by several expanded editions that came to be titled Révolutions de Portugal and covered a broader historical arc of Portuguese history. A widely circulated historical work from the 18th century, which decisively contributed to the dissemination of knowledge about the history of Portugal, and in particular the revolution of December 1, 1640, in French-speaking Europe. It had numerous editions throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate