Par une noble attention : through a noble kindness

2. La Frise, a Province of Holland, the capital of which is Leeuwarden.

3. Jules lîichelet, whose réputation as a historian is Trorld-wide, was born in Paris in 1798. His fatner was a printer in ordinary cir cumstances. Michelet studied Latin by hiroself at flrst and afterwardswentto the Lycée Gharïemagne. In 1821, he was tendered a professorship of history in the collège Kollin, and in 1830 entered the

l8 LES HISTORIENS FRANÇAIS

Bientôt se forma contre le grand roi la coalition d' Augsbourg, dans laquelle entrèrent l'Espagne, la Suède, PAllemagne et l'Angleterre. Comme généraux, la France avait Luxembourg1 et Catinat ;2 sur mer, elle était représentée par Tourville et Jean-Bart.3 La coalition avait à son service des tacticiens éminents comme Guillaume III, roi d'Angleterre ; le duc de Savoie et le prince Eugène. Aux Pays-Bas, Luxembourg remporta les victoires de Fleurus (1690), Steinkerque (1692), et Nerwinde (1693).

1. Luxembourg (1628-1695), one of the best tacticians of the XVII century, was nicknamed by the people of Paris the Tapissier de Notre-Dame, on account of the numerous flags conquered by him and which were used in decorating the nave of the great church.

2. Catinat (1637-1712), who won the victories of Staffarde (1690) and Marsaille (1698), was also one of the best known diplomats in Freneh History.

3. Tourville et Jean-Bart, two celebrated admirais, were born, the first in 1642, the second in 1650, and died in 1701 and 1702.

Sorbonne as an assistant prof essor. His Histoire Romaine was published in 1832, and the first volume of his Histoire de France in 1833, but it was notuntil 1857 that this great work was completed. His other Works are : Le Prêtre, La Femme et la Famille (1844), Histoire de la Révolution Française (1847), L'Oiseau, V Insecte, La Mer, L'Amour. etc. " Michelet," has said Demogeot, "is too much of a historian to be only apoet, but he is too much of a poet to be only a historian." The great historian Hippolyte Taine, who recently died (March 1893), criticises the works of Michelet in thèse words : Son histoire a toutes les qualités de l'inspiration : mouvement, grâce, esprit, couleur, passion, éloquence; elle n'a point celles de la Science : clarté, justesse, certitude, mesure, autorité. Elle est admirable et incomplète: elle séluit et ne convainc pas. Peut-être, dans cinquante ans, quand on voudra la définir, on dira qu'elle est l'épopée lyrique delà France." Michelet died in 1874.

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