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The origins of French civilization

FAURIEL, Charles Claude.
Histoire de la Gaule méridionale sous la domination des conquérants germains.




Paris, Paulin, 1836. 4 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half marbled calf, spine gilt and decorated with title and volume number lettered in gold on red respectively green morocco label, marbled boards. X, 586 (1, 1 blank); (3, 1 blank), 530 (1, 1 blank); (3, 1 blank), 530, (1,1 blank); (3, 1 blank), 546 (1, 1 blank) pp.

Original complete set of this extensive general history of the southern part of France by Charles Claude Fauriel (St. Etienne 1772- Paris 1844) a French historian, philologist and critic. He studied first at the Oratorian College of Tournon, then at Lyons. He served in the army of the Pyrénées-Orientales. Under the Directory Fouche, an ex-Oratorian, attached him to his cabinet as private secret secretary. Under the Empire, he refused office in order to devote all his time to study. Fauriel adopted the new ideas of the Philosophers and the principles of the Revolution, but repudiated them in part in the later years of his life. A chair of foreign literature was created for him at the University of Paris. He studied specially the Southern literatures and Provencal poetry. His lectures were published after his death under the title of 'Histoire de la poésie provençale' (3 vols, Paris, 1846). In order to study more deeply the origins of French civilization he wrote 'Histoire de la Gaule méridionale sous la domination des conquérants germains', only a part of a vaster work conceived by him.
Good set.- (Ex-libris stamp on titles; some spotting).
Brunet II, col. 1194; M. Espagne, 'Claude Fauriel en quête d'une méthode, ou l'Idéologie à l'écoute de l'Allemagne'. In: Romantisme 21 (1991), pp. 7-18 (especially pp. 8 & 16); not in Cat. Baer, Frankreich. Geschichte und Landeskunde, Cat. Nijhoff, History of France or Graesse.

Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  History 

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