The Bird,” was first published in 1856. It has since been followed by “L’Insecte” and “La Mer;” the three works forming a trilogy which ...
Continue Reading →Michelet deliberately threw his intimate self into his narrative, convinced that this was the way to achieve the historian’s ultimate aim: the resurrection (or re-creation) ...
Continue Reading →Michelet deliberately threw his intimate self into his narrative, convinced that this was the way to achieve the historian’s ultimate aim: the resurrection (or re-creation) ...
Continue Reading → One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavour among the positivist historians who came ...
Continue Reading → Jules Michelet was a French historian. In his 1855 work, Histoire de France (History of France), he was the first historian to use and ...
Continue Reading →One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of ...
Continue Reading →For women, the heart is everything, says in these pages one of the greatest historians of the French Revolution, Jules Michelet.But this sentence, far from ...
Continue Reading → ‘The Sea’ is another of M. Michelet’s dreamy volumes,—half science, half fancy, with a blending in both of sensuous suggestion. M. Michelet takes the ...
Continue Reading →“The Insect” is one of the four remarkable works in which the late M. Michelet embodied the results of a loving and persevering study of ...
Continue Reading →Condillac’s Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time ...
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