عنوان

Virtue, Happiness and Duclos' Histoire de Madame de Luz

(Number (ISBN

9401572933

(Number (ISBN

9789401572934

Number

b591369

Title Proper

Virtue, Happiness and Duclos' Histoire de Madame de Luz

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

by Lloyd Raymond Free.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1974

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(v, 102 pages)

Series Title

Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, 15.

Text of Note

I --; II --; I. The Novel's Composition --; II. Characterization --; III. Thematic Content --; IV. Novelistic Techniques --; III --; IV --; I. La Princesse de Clèves and Madame de Luz --; II. Justine and Madame de Luz --; Conclusion --; Selected Bibliography.

Text of Note

Charles Pinot Duclos' biography dramatizes the evolution from the rigid separation of the aristocratic and plebeian classes in the seventeenth century to the gradual social democratization in the eighteenth. This son of a Brittany merchant from the little village of Dinan rose to social prominence in the aristocratic salon circles of Paris and to literary pre eminence, as attest contemporary memoirs, the success of his novels, histories and moral writings as well as his official positions - a member of two academies, Royal Historiographer, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy -a feat nearly impossible in the stratified society of seventeenth century France. Moreover, not only was Duclos, the exceptional con versationalist, a persona grata among the Parisian social elite, but he was also aligned with the progressive philosophical forces, a friend or ally of the foremost mid-century men of letters. Indeed, as Karl Toth has so ably demonstrated, Duclos perhaps more than any other important writer 1 of his day can be considered the true representative of his Age. 1 Karl Toth, Woman and Rococo in France (London, 1931), p. 29. For amplified documentation on the character and life of Duclos consult the following sources: Louis Simon Auger, "Notice sur Duclos," Oeuvres completes de Duclos, Paris, 1806. Emile Henriot, "Un honnete homme au XVIIIe siecle -Duclos," La Nouvelle Revue (oct.-nov. 1910), XVII, pp. 553-64; (nov.-dec. 1910) XVIII, pp. 124-33. Leo Le Bourgo, Un homme de lettres au XVIII" siecle, Duclos, sa vie et ses ouvrages (Bordeaux, 1902).

History.

Philosophy (General)

Philosophy, Modern.

by Lloyd Raymond Free.

Lloyd Raymond Free

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