Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Synopsis

Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2) contains the biography of Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, Madame de Staël.

It is impossible to commence the biography of this extraordinary man without feelings of apprehension as to our power of well executing the task. To write the life of Voltaire in a full and satisfactory manner, is to write not only the biography of an individual author, and the history of French literature during the course of nearly a century, but also of a revolution in the minds of men, in their opinions and rules of action, which, if not brought about entirely by him, was fostered and supported by his influence, in a manner the most singular and powerful.

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