Hombres buenos

A finales del siglo XVIII, cuando dos miembros de la Real Academia Española, el bibliotecario don Hermógenes Molina y el almirante don Pedro Zárate, recibieron de sus compañeros el encargo de viajar a París para conseguir de forma casi clandestina los 28 volúmenes de la Encyclopédie de D'Alembert y Diderot, que estaba prohibida en España, nadie podía sospechar que los dos académicos iban a enfrentarse a una peligrosa sucesión de intrigas, a un viaje de incertidumbres y sobresaltos que los llevaría, por caminos infestados de bandoleros e incómodas ventas y posadas, desde el Madrid ilustrado de Carlos III al París de los cafés, los salones, las tertulias filosóficas, la vida libertina y las agitaciones políticas en vísperas de la Revolución francesa. ; ; At the end of the 18th century, when two members of the Royal Spanish Academy, the librarian Hermógenes Molina and the admiral Pedro Zárate, were commissioned by their colleagues to travel to Paris to obtain, almost clandestinely, the 28 volumes of the Encyclopédie by D'Alembert and Diderot, which was banned in Spain, no one could have suspected that the two academics were going to face a dangerous succession of intrigues, a journey of uncertainties and surprises that would lead them, along paths infested with bandits and uncomfortable bandits, to a journey that would take them to the Spanish capital, no one could have suspected that the two scholars were about to face a dangerous succession of intrigues, a journey of uncertainties and shocks that would take them, along roads infested with bandits and uncomfortable inns and innkeepers, from the enlightened Madrid of Charles III to the Paris of the cafés, the salons, the philosophical gatherings, the libertine life and the political upheavals on the eve of the French Revolution.