# Traité de législation

- id: traite-de-legislation
- original title: Traité de législation, ou exposition des lois générales
- author: Charles Comte
- language: French
- composed: 1826–1827, Paris
- field: law

Comte's four-volume study of how laws actually shape peoples, written by a man the Restoration's censors had already chased across two borders.

## The chain

- **2026** French -> English, translation [attested]
  Adnan Abbasi (editor), David M. Hart (scholar), New Delhi
  An AI-assisted translation curated at Thothica in New Delhi, made from the French editions kept findable by Hart's Digital Library of Liberty and Power. No earlier complete English translation is known to this atlas; the verification page records the search.
  Evidence: Thothica 2026; David M. Hart 2026 (source editions and the scholarship that kept the book in citation)

## Worth knowing

This is the atlas's newest kind of chain: a book famous in citation and absent in translation. Economists and historians of liberalism cited the Traité for two centuries while no complete English existed. The crossing finally happened in New Delhi in 2026, an AI-assisted translation made by Thothica from the editions kept findable by David Hart's digital library; this library is where it lives.

## Sources

- David M. Hart (2026). The Digital Library of Liberty and Power (davidmhart.com). davidmhart.com.
- Thothica (2026). Falsafa: the library and librarian (falsafa.ai). falsafa.ai.

Confidence grades: attested (named in the medieval record or settled in scholarship), probable (standard view with real uncertainty), disputed (scholars disagree).