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)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Authors, French -- Biography
Famine the Result of War 365
1709. Ætat. 58. Fénélon's active Charity to the Soldiery and the
People 365
1711. The Death of the Dauphin overwhelms Fénélon with grief as a
national Misfortune 360
Death of Fénélon's chief Friends 366
1713. Louis XIV. relents as to this admirable Prelate 366
1715. Death of Fénélon 367
Demise of Louis XIV. 368
Person, Manners, and Talent of de la Mothe Fénélon 368
His Character given by Sir----Ramsay and other Writers 369
Eloge of Fénélon by d'Alembert 369
Criticism on "Télémaque" 372
TABLE,
ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,
TO THE SECOND VOLUME OF
LIVES OF
EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF FRANCE.
VOLTAIRE.
1694-1778.
A. D.
Infidelity of Voltaire 2
1694. Birth of François-Marie Arouet at Chatenay 4
His Father, M. Arouet, a Notary 4
1704. Ætat. 10. Is taught by the Jesuits in the College of
Louis-le-Grand 5
His Prejudice against the Jansenists 5
The Abbé de Chateauneuf 5
Precocious Genius of Arouet 5
His introduction to Parisian Society 6
Court of Louis XIV. 6
The King ruled by Molinist Confessors 6
Influence of Madame de Maintenon in religious Matters 6
1714. Ætat. 20. Young Arouet sent to Holland with the Marquis de
Chateauneuf 7
His Affection for Mademoiselle du Noyer 8
He is placed as pupil with M. Alain, Attorney in Paris 9
M. de Caumartin invites him to his Château of St. Ange 10
1715. State of public Affairs on the Demise of Louis XIV. 10
The Regent d'Orléans, and Cardinal Dubois 10
1716. Ætat. 22. Arouet imprisoned in the Bastille for a Satire of
which he was not the Author 11
On Epic Poetry 12
Criticism on the Henriade of Voltaire 13
Duke of Orléans liberates and compensates him 14
1718. Ætat. 24. "Œdipe," Tragedy by Voltaire 15
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