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

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

Name: Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Authors, French -- Biography

THE

CABINET OF BIOGRAPHY.

CONDUCTED BY THE

REV. DIONYSIUS LARDNER, LL.D. F.R.S. L.& E.

M.R.I. A. F.R.A.S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. Hon. F.C.P.S. &c. &c.

ASSISTED BY

EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN.

BIOGRAPHY

EMINENT

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN

OF FRANCE.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND JOHN TAYLOR,

UPPER GOWER STREET.

1839.




CONTENTS
TABLE,
ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,
TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF
LIVES OF
EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF FRANCE.
TABLE,
ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,
TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF
LIVES OF
EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF FRANCE.
VOLTAIRE
ROUSSEAU
CONDORCET
MIRABEAU
MADAME ROLAND
MADAME DE STAËL
INDEX
TABLE, ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL, TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF
LIVES OF EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.
TABLE, ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL, TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF
LIVES OF EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.
TABLE, ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL, TO THE THIRD VOLUME OF
LIVES OF EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.
INDEX




_The Analytical and Chronological Tables and Index to the Series of
Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and
Portugal, are given at the end of this volume._




TABLE,

ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,

TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF

LIVES OF

EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF FRANCE.


MONTAIGNE.

1533-1592

A.D.

1533. Birth of Michel de Montaigne                                        1
Pierre Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne                                      1
Education of Montaigne and his five Brothers                              2
The Public School of Guienne                                              5
1559. Ætat 26. Friendship with Etienne de la Boétie                       7
1563. Death of É. de la Boétie                                            9
1566. Ætat 33. Marriage of Montaigne                                      9
Death of his father Pierre                                           10, 11
Troubles of France                                                       10
Duke of Guise                                                            11
Henry King of Navarre, afterwards Henri Quatre                           11
Anecdotes of the Civil War                                           13, 14
1580. Ætat. 47. Montaigne's Journey through Switzerland to Munich,
Venice, and Rome                                                         17
1581. Ætat. 48. Citizenship of Rome granted to Montaigne by a Bull
of the Pope                                                              18
Description of Rome                                                      18
Devotion of Montaigne, and Offering at the Shrine of Loretto             19
Montaigne elected Mayor by the Citizens of Bordeaux. His
return home to fill that Office                                          19
1585. Ætat 52.

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