Word: michelet
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...complete. These include the literary history of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the history of fiction, of poetry and of the drama; a collection of French drama; the more important dictionaries and the works of the prominent French writers. For French history, there are the works of Michelet, Martin and Godefrey; for reference and research, "Le Dictionarire de l'Academie Francaise," Littre's Dictionary, Larousse's: "Dictionaire Universel" and "La Grande Encyclopedia." Among the complete sets are numbered those of Corneille, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucaud, Molicre, Racine, Madame de Levigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Concerdet, Diderot, Rousseau, Buffon, Beaumarchais, Chateaubriand...
...marked contrast to Thierry's imagination is the sensibility of Michelet. This quality in Michelet's writing was the result of his unhealthy nature and of the suffering of his childhood and youth. He has the imagination of the heart; he penetrates the soul. For this reason he has a sympathetic appreciation of the Middle Ages and is the best historian of Jeanne d'Arc. But after 1843 Michelet lost the equilibrium he had preserved between imagination and erudition; and history came to mean for him mere pamphlet writing...
Cercle Francais. Lectures on French Romanticism. VIII. L'Histoire. Augustin Thierry et Michelet. Conclusion. M. Rene Doumic. Sanders Theatre...
Cercle Francais. Lectures on French Romanticism. VIII. L'Histoire. Augustin Thierry et Michelet. Conclusion. M. Rene Doumic. Sanders Theatre...
March 16.- L' Histoire. Augustin Thierry et Michelet. Conclusion...