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Edgar Quinet - His Early Life And Writings (1881) (Paperback)
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Edgar Quinet - His Early Life And Writings (1881) (Paperback)
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CHAPTER I. BOURG, WESEL. 1803-1807. " Nerer, perhaps, waa a child
surrounded by persons of a more opposite character."?Ma Idia. Edgae
Quinet was born February the l7th, 1803, at Bourg, the chief town
of Ain in France, a department bordering on Switzerland. When he
came into the world the Temple of Janus was closed. But the very
next day, the second of his life, it was re-opened, and the fiends
of war came hurrying out to desolate Europe for more than twelve
years. The babe who thus made its appearance at so unpro- pitious
an hour was a pale-faced little creature, and it was doubtful
whether its exit would not be almost coeval with its entry. The
Quinets were an old Catholic family established in Brcsse for three
centuries. Edgar's grandfather, Phili- bert Quinet, was Maire of
Bourg, his grandmother being the daughter of a lawyer in the
Dauphiny. She was a character. A conventual life of some years had
made her terribly hard. Her domestic discipline was more than
monastic; once a week she employed a garde- de-ville to whip her
three children (one was a girl) naughty or not. When her son was
only three she shut him up in a drawer. When he was a young man she
had all the flowers he loved torn up; and when he was fifty years
old she rebuked him as unceremoniously as if he were still a boy.
This awful old lady had a strangeadmiration for beauty. She
surrounded herself with engravings and works of art, and would have
no domestic in her employ who had not regular features. There must
have been something beautiful in the face of her new-born grandson,
since, at the sight of him, she relaxed her sternness and said, "
He will have mind." The son who was treated so severely was the
father of Edgar Quinet, and his early experiences ought not to be
forgotten in estimating hi...
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