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Title: La Côte d'Émeraude
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Musson, Spencer C A. & C. Black, publisher Lewis, John Hardwicke, 1841-1927, ill
Subjects: Brittany (France) -- Description and travel Normandy (France) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e,escaped to England, where he taught French andwrote his Essai Historique, Politique et Morale,in which he reviews revolutions old and new in con-nection with the great upheaval in France. In thisconfused work, full of ill-digested learning, illuminedwith flashes of genius and drenched with pessimism,he sees mankind ever travelling in a hopeless circle oferror and misery. His point of view was still that ofthe age that was ending, from the style of which hewas never liberated, but whose spirit, even while heshared it, filled him with revolt. Then occurred thegreat spiritual crisis of his life, brought about by thedeath of his mother, quickly followed by that of hissister. I wept and I believed, he wrote—littleknowing how many a Paul Pry would be on his track.He at once set himself to lead others in the way bywhich he had found salvation, to lead them, as hehad himself been led, by sentiment and emotion, byappeal to the subconscious heritage of faith and hope 140 CHATEAU DE COMBOURG
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ri Chateaubriand to which the mind of the time was instinctively re-verting. The flimsy framework of reasoning on whichhe stretched his gorgeous tapestry of imaginative prosewas a hardly needed concession to the intellectualismthat the time professed and was weary of. As hehimself said of La Genie du Christianisme, il estvenu juste, et a Vheure. All France was halting atthe crossways, and waiting for a lead; the philosophershad said their say and had their day, their tenets hadbecome a superstition and their doctrines cant; thebrilliant banter, the liberation and illumination, of theVoltairian revolt against tradition, had crystallizedinto conventions as narrow, tyrannous and barren asthose that they had destroyed; Christianity had beenderided as barbarous and ludicrous, a refuge for weakminds and straitened souls, but it only needed thatsome one should brave the mechanical ridicule thatgreeted any assertion of faith or reverence, that someone should reassure French amour frofre again

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