Ces faces succulentes : thèse lu scions faces

6. Gustave Doré. A famous draughtsman, remarkable by the brilliancy of his imagination and the originality of his pencil. He has illustrated a great many books, such as Milton's Paradise Lost, Cervantes* Don Quixote, La Fontaine's Fables, Dante's Divine Comedy, etc. (1833-1883.)

7. Rabelais. A great writer and humorist of the sixteenth century, the author of Les Faits et dits du géant Gargantua et de son fils Pantagruel, an immense satire on the men and institutions of his time.

8. Contes drolatiques. A séries of taies by Honoré de Balzac, in which he prétends to imitate Rabelais* style.

9. Empêtrée . . . matière : hampered with too mue h fiesh, Le. his body seemed too heavy for so délicate a soûl.

10. Ce . . . "Théologie de Béranger": on this face, that one imagined molded by transcendental skepticism, one could rather find the traces {thumb-

marks) of Béranger's theology, i.e. one did not find on Renan 's face the hard expression of skepticism, but rather the bonhomie of the disciples of Bé ranger 's theology, whose god was called le Dieu des bonnes gens, the god of simple-minded people.

Page 9. — i . Lamennais. A great French theologian, born in Brittany in 1782. He was ordained, and soon became a warm partisan of the revo lutionary doctrines and of liberalism in religion. His greatest works, which excited much admiration on one side and much blâme on the other, are : Essai sur l'Indifférence en matière de religion and Les Paroles d'un croyant. He separated himself from the Roman Church, and died without receiving the last sacraments. As a writer, he showed a great deal of talent ; his works were f ull of éloquence.

2. Jouffroy. A famous philosopher, born in 1796. He was appointed professor of philosophy at the Collège Bourbon at first, then at the Faculté des Lettres, afterwards at the Collège de France. He entered the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1838 ; he had been elected a member of the House of Représentatives in 1831. His best-known works are : Mélanges philosophiques and Cours de droit naturel. He died in

3. Pascal. One of the greatest writers of the seventeenth century, was born in 1623. He was at the same time a physicist, a mathematician, and a philosopher. He retired to the abbey of Port Royal when still young, and from there sent forth into the world his famous Lettres Provinciales > written against the loose doctrines of the Jesuits, and in order to support his friends the Jansenists. Before his death he had been preparing a great work on the Christian religion, fragments of which were published later on, under the name of Pensées.