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Chapters of the Biographical History of the French Academy; With an Appendix Relating to the Unpublished Monastic Chronicle, Entitled, Liber de Hyda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...- - return to return to France of the Ashes of Napoleon.' Lemercier todyot " had sat in the Gallery of the Convention, day after day, Napoleon, adst fQ knitting-women, "to see the laws outlawed," until the sights that he had there looked upon wrought on his very features an expression almost of idiocy. But it seems never to have occurred to him that the man who had, at least, dethroned anarchy, had done a service to France, which no subsequent misdoings can justly obliterate from memory. This curious circumstance has been recorded by a contemporary. So striking was the reflection on his features of the horror in his mind, that some of the regular attendants in that gallery thought him really an idiot, with a mania for speeches. Lemercier lived long enough to observe that revulsion of lemerdert feeling towards Napoleon's memory--amongst men of the more vig0poet's own class--in which he could not share. He also TM"kjhan b" lived long enough to survive his own works. Great as had been their influence upon his immediate contemporaries, they lacked that savour of style which is the condition, not only of immortality, but even of the continued esteem of a single generation. His force of character--his resolute independence of spirit--can never lose their charm. These were the qualities which made the man greater than the poet. Lemercier spoke his mind, and spoke it fully, at all epochs; alike, whether the men at the helm were friends or foes; whether the views expressed were popular or unpopular; and, hence, his fate was pretty much the same at all epochs. The Committee of Public Safety proscribed his Levite d'Ephraim. The National Convention suppressed his Tartufe Re'volutionnaire. Under Napoleon's censorship he had five severa...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781236302229
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1236302222
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr


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