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Frances Malino - The Abbe Gregoire and His World - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40:2 Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.2 266-267 Book Review The Abbé Grégoire and His World Jeremy D. Popkin and Richard H. Popkin, editors. The Abbé Grégoire and His World. International Archives of the History of Ideas. Dordrecht: Kluwer Publishers, 2000. Pp. xv + 191. Cloth, $97.00. The editors of this fine volume challenge an often-held truism, that collections of articles, especially those originating as conference papers, will be uneven and suffer a lack of coherence. In a veritable tour de force, Popkin père et fils, along with seven other scholars, have successfully captured the rich, albeit controversial, life and legacy of the Abbé Henri Grégoire. Revolutionary and cleric, assimilationist and advocate for religious and racial minorities, universalist and cultural imperialist, Grégoire embodies the dreams,..