Madame De Maintenon (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Madame De Maintenon Madame and My Friend, Most heartily do I thank you for allowing me to see the proofs of your remarkable book on Madame de Maintenon. I have just read them, and my mind is full of the thought of the delight this psychological study, perfect in its fidelity and subtlety, would have been to your uncle, Monsieur Taine, who himself loved and practised, in so superior a fashion, that most splendid and difficult art of portraiture, historical or literary. But can the former of these two be differentiated from the latter? Does not the artist who discovers, in a writer´s talent, that which the author of l´Intelligence denominated the "génératives" dive down into the most secret and living depths of the individual who manifests himself through the medium of any work of art? And is it not this point, the most hidden, the most instinct with life of all, that the great historian discovers in the actions of the warrior or the statesman? Whether the individual described be a Balzac or a Napoleon, a Swift or a Danton, a Byron or a Robespierre, the method must always be identical. Why these names come naturally to my pen, you will easily understand! To your memory, as to mine, they recall some of the finest pages of the Essais de Critique et d´Histoire, of the Littérature Anglaise, of the Origines - all of them instinct with the same idea: that properly to reproduce a life, we must think of it in relation to its causes, and that this quest for causes must depend on the establishment and setting in order of a series of small facts, duly surveyed and classified. 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.
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