Sketches of Eminent Statesmen and Writers

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MADAME DU DEFFAND AND HEE CORRESPONDENTS.1 (From the Quarterly Beview, July, 1878.) We recently named Saint-Sim on as a striking instance of a celebrity of whom little was popularly known in this country beyond the name. Madame du Deffand is another and still more striking instance. The reading public of England know next to nothing of her besides her connection and correspondence with Horace Walpole, forming a mere (if important) episode in the concluding years of her life. Yet that life is mixed up and blended with one of the most brilliant periods of the social and literary history of France. " Born," says M. de Lescure, " in the reign (en plein regne) of Louis XIV., and, by virtue of a privilege of longevity, which she shares with Voltaire and the Marshal deRichelieu, dying under Louis XVI. at the moment when the curtain is beginning to rise on the scene of the Revolution, Madame du Deffand is?along with Voltaire for ideas, with Richelieu for manners? one of the most complete representatives of the eighteenth century, one of the most perfect moral and literary types, one of the most indispensable and agreeable witnesses to be heard." 11. Lettres de la Marquise du Deffand a Horace Walpole. Auxqudles sont jointes des Lettres de Madame du Deffand a Voltaire, etc. Noitvrll Edition, augmenlee des Extraits des Lettres dHorace Walpole, etc., et jirecedee d'une Notice sur Madame du Deffand par M. Thiers. Deux volumes. Paris, 1864. 2. Correspondence complete de la Marquise du Deffand, avec ses Amis, etc., classic dans I'Ordre chranologiyue et precedee d'une Histoife de sa Vie, etc., etc. Par M. He Lescure. Deux volumes. Paris, 1865. 3. Correspondence complete de Mme. du Deffand avec la Dncftesse de Cnoiseul, I'Abbe Barihelemy et M. Craiifurt. Publife avec une Introduc...

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