It was there that he wrote Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain (Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Spirit), which was published posthumously in 1795 and is considered one of the major texts of the Enlightenment and of historical thought.
Tu je napisao “Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progres de l'esprit humain”( skica za istorijsku sliku o napretku ljudskog duha), koja je posthumno objavljena 1795. i smatra se jednim od glavnih tekstova prosvetljenja i istorijskih misli.