The career of Jean-Francois Seguier (1703–1784), who lived for twenty years in Verona alongside the Marquis Maffei before returning to Nimes, his native city, reveals spatial constraints that hung over intellectual communications during the modern era. Contrary to representations of a Republic of Letters uniformly interconnected by correspondence networks, it invites us to take an interest in mechanisms implemented by the learned to deal with these constraints. Ordinary writings such as notebooks or visitors' records, which constitute weak links based on brief or regular meetings, letters of recommendation handed to travelers preserved over great distances the possibility of erudite communications.
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