Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2) — John Shaqi
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors, French -- Biography
[Footnote 9: "J'ai pris plaisir de publier en plusieurs lieux
l'espérance que j'ai de Marie de Gournay le Jars, ma fille d'alliance,
et certes aimée de moi beaucoup plus que paternellement, et envellopée
en ma retraite et solitude comme l'une des meilleures parties de mon
propre estre: je ne regarde plus qu'elle au monde. Si l'adolescence peut
donner présage, cette alme sera quelque jour capable des plus belles
choses, et entre autre de la perfection de cette très sainte amitié, ou
nous ne lisons point que son sexe ayt peu monter encores: la sincérité
et la solidité de ses mœurs y sont déjà bastantes; son affection
vers moi, plus que surrabondante, et telle, en somme, qu'il n'y a rien a
souhaiter, sinon que l'appréhension qu'elle a de ma fin par les
cinquante et cinq ans auxquels elle ma rencontré, la travaillant moins
cruellement. Le jugement qu'elle fait de mes premiers Essais, et femme,
et si jeune, et seule en son quartier, et la véhémence fameuse dont
elle m'aima et me désira longtemps, sur la seule estime qu'elle eu prins
de moi, longtemps avant m'avoir vue, sont des accidents de très digne
considération."]
[Footnote 10: Eleonore de Montaigne married twice. She had no children
by her first marriage. Her second husband was the viscount de Gamache.
From this marriage the counts of Segur are descended in the female
line.]
RABELAIS
1483-1553
Francis Rabelais,--"the great jester of France," as he is designated by
Lord Bacon; a learned scholar, physician, and philosopher, as he appears
from other and eminent testimonies,--was one of the most remarkable
persons who figured in the revival of letters. It is his fortune, like
the ancient Hercules, to be noted with posterity for many feats to which
he was a stranger,--but which are always to his disadvantage. The gross
buffooneries amassed by him in his nondescript romance have made his
name a common mark for any extravagance or impertinence of unknown or
doubtful parentage. The purveyors of anecdotes have even fixed upon him
some of the lazzi, as they are called, which may be found in the stage
directions of old Italian farce. Those events and circumstances of his
life which are really known, or deserving of belief, may be given within
a narrow compass. We, of course, reject, in this notice, all that would
offend the decencies of modern and better taste.
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