Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Lettres juives or The Jewish Spy (1738-1742) is an epistolary novel attributed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens. It \"purports to be a translation of the correspondence between five distinguished rabbis who reside in different cities. ... The book comprises a survey of the various governments of Europe at whose several capitals these Jewish rabbis reside either permanently or temporarily during their travels. ... Though Marquis d'Argens signs himself as the translator, he is doubtless the author.\"He \"began publishing the letters in serial form, two per week, in December 1735. Twenty months, 180 letters, and over 350,000 words later, he had completed his monumental work. Meanwhile, his publisher had begun selling the letters in volumes of 30 and by the end of 1737 had produced 6 volumes in octavo. By the end of 1739 at least 10 editions, most of them pirated, had been published in French. ... Numerous translations of the novel also appeared in English, German and Dutch.\" \"The prolific d'Argens was enormously popular in his day and was best known for this novel.\""@en }
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- The_Jewish_Spy abstract "Lettres juives or The Jewish Spy (1738-1742) is an epistolary novel attributed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens. It \"purports to be a translation of the correspondence between five distinguished rabbis who reside in different cities. ... The book comprises a survey of the various governments of Europe at whose several capitals these Jewish rabbis reside either permanently or temporarily during their travels. ... Though Marquis d'Argens signs himself as the translator, he is doubtless the author.\"He \"began publishing the letters in serial form, two per week, in December 1735. Twenty months, 180 letters, and over 350,000 words later, he had completed his monumental work. Meanwhile, his publisher had begun selling the letters in volumes of 30 and by the end of 1737 had produced 6 volumes in octavo. By the end of 1739 at least 10 editions, most of them pirated, had been published in French. ... Numerous translations of the novel also appeared in English, German and Dutch.\" \"The prolific d'Argens was enormously popular in his day and was best known for this novel.\"".