The _Golden Legend_ was translated into French by Jean Belet de Vigny
in the 14th century. It was also one of the earliest books to issue
from the press. A Latin edition is assigned to about 1469; and a dated
one was published at Lyons in 1473. Many other Latin editions were
printed before the end of the century. A French translation by Master
John Bataillier is dated 1476; Jean de Vigny's appeared at Paris,
1488; an Italian one by Nic. Manerbi (? Venice, 1475); a Bohemian one
at Pilsen, 1475-1479, and at Prague, 1495; Caxton's English versions,
1483, 1487 and 1493; and a German one in 1489. Several 15th-century
editions of the _Sermons_ are also known, and the Mariale was printed
at Venice in 1497 and at Paris in 1503.
For bibliography see Potthast, _Bibliotheca hist. med. aev._ (Berlin,
1896), p. 634; U. Chevalier, _Répertoire des sources hist. Bio.-bibl._
(Paris, 1905), s.v. "Jacques de Voragine."
JACOTOT, JOSEPH (1770-1840), French educationist, author of the method
of "emancipation intellectuelle," was born at Dijon on the 4th of March
1770. He was educated at the university of Dijon, where in his
nineteenth year he was chosen professor of Latin, after which he studied
law, became advocate, and at the same time devoted a large amount of his
attention to mathematics. In 1788 he organized a federation of the youth
of Dijon for the defence of the principles of the Revolution; and in
1792, with the rank of captain, he set out to take part in the campaign
of Belgium, where he conducted himself with bravery and distinction.
After for some time filling the office of secretary of the "commission
d'organisation du mouvement des armées," he in 1794 became deputy of the
director of the Polytechnic school, and on the institution of the
central schools at Dijon he was appointed to the chair of the "method of
sciences," where he made his first experiments in that mode of tuition
which he afterwards developed more fully. On the central schools being
replaced by other educational institutions, Jacotot occupied
successively the chairs of mathematics and of Roman law until the
overthrow of the empire. In 1815 he was elected a representative to the
chamber of deputies; but after the second restoration he found it
necessary to quit his native land, and, having taken up his residence at
Brussels, he was in 1818 nominated by the Government teacher of the
French language at the university of Louvain, where he perfected into a
system the educational principles which he had already practised with
success in France. His method was not only adopted in several
institutions in Belgium, but also met with some approval in France,
England, Germany and Russia. It was based on three principles: (1) all
men have equal intelligence; (2) every man has received from God the
faculty of being able to instruct himself; (3) everything is in
everything. As regards (1) he maintained that it is only in the will to
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