Early French and German defenses of freedom of the press Elie Luzac's essay on Freedom of expression, 1749 and Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's On freedom of the press and its limits, 1787 in English translation / - Laursen, John Christian.; Zande, Johan van der.; Luzac, Elie,; Bahrdt, Karl Friedrich, (Brill's studies in intellectual history,)