Portraits of the eighteenth century, historic and literary / [Translated by Katharine P. Wormeley] With an introd. by Ruth Mulhauser.

By: Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869Material type: TextTextReference number:64015699Publication details: New York : F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1964] Description: 2 v. : ports. ; 22 cmSubject(s): Biography 18th century | France Biography
Contents:
V.1, Introdction: Sainte-Beuve, by E. Scherer. Duchesse du Maine. Madame de Staal-Delaunay. Le Sage. Montesquieu. Adrienne Le Couvreur. Voltaire. Marquise du Deffand. Earl of Chesterfield. Benjamin Franklin. Madame Geoffin. The Abbe Barthelemy. Louis XV. -- V.2. Abbe Prevost. Madame de Lambert and Madame Necker. Denis Diderot. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Friedrich Melchior Grimm. Madame d'Epinay. Buffon. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Frederick the Great. Wilhelmina, Margravine of Baireuth. Beaumarchais. Jacques Necker. Marie-Antoinette.
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"Taken from the [author's] Causeries du lundi ... Portraits de femme, and ... Portraits litteraires."

V.1, Introdction: Sainte-Beuve, by E. Scherer. Duchesse du Maine. Madame de Staal-Delaunay. Le Sage. Montesquieu. Adrienne Le Couvreur. Voltaire. Marquise du Deffand. Earl of Chesterfield. Benjamin Franklin. Madame Geoffin. The Abbe Barthelemy. Louis XV. -- V.2. Abbe Prevost. Madame de Lambert and Madame Necker. Denis Diderot. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Friedrich Melchior Grimm. Madame d'Epinay. Buffon. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Frederick the Great. Wilhelmina, Margravine of Baireuth. Beaumarchais. Jacques Necker. Marie-Antoinette.

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