Word: marot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Gay in Harvard I will be giving a summary of the economic progress of the nineteenth century at 9 o'clock. At 11 o'clock, Professor Whitney will give the lecture which has the best chance to triumph over my weakened condition, in Emerson J. The Plelade Cement Marot, Montaigne and Pascal, great names of the high Renaissance in France, will be his subject.--Then there are at noon Professor Demos in Emerson A, on "Ethics as an Art," and Professor Hill in his Cast lecture on Borodin in the Music Building, one of which should make me cross...
...greater. A Frenchman can best appraise him. In the Revue Bleue of February 23, 1901, Fernand Gregh said. "Never was the French language better written. . . . It is simply perfection. Renan himself wrote less well as far as pure technique is concerned. . . . He is a brother through the centuries of Marot, Montaigne, Racine, La Fontaine, La Bruyere, Fenelon, Diderot, and Voltaire. He is the Frenchman. A man who is to such an extent representative, to use one of Emerson's expressions, is a rare and important being...
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