[PDF] Three French Moralists Of The Seventeenth Century eBook

Author : Edmund Gosse
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Fiction
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In 'Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France', Edmund Gosse explores the origins of the spirit of gallantry that inspired young French officers at the beginning of World War I. Through his essays, Gosse aims to shed light on the many different strains of the French soul and to understand the source of their idealism. In this book he examines the historical context of the war, through exploring the ideas of the moralists La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, and Vauvenargues.

Author : Edmund William Gosse
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781331036968

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Excerpt from Three French Moralists: And the Gallantry of France This little book, long the subject of my meditation, suddenly began to take shape one Sunday morning when I was your guest at Gisburne. We were actually starting for church, and the car was at the door, when I announced to you that the spirit moved me to stay behind. "Very well, then," you said, with your habitual good-nature, "we leave you to your folios." My "folios" were the three volumes of one of the smallest of books, the i8mo edition of Vau-venargues published by Plon in 1874. In the midst of a violent thunderstorm, which was like a declaration of war upon your golden Yorkshire summer, I wrote my first pages, and you were so sceptical, when you came back, as to my having done anything but watch the lightning, that I told you you would have to endure the responsibility of being sponsor to a work thus suddenly begun in all the agitation of the elements. So, such as time has proved it, here it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.