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.Lnlius Caesar.

IT, ,,rsface to the French edition OF
Louis Napoleon's History OF julius Casai'
furnishes list of royal personages who nave
either written about Caesar, or his celebrated
commentaries or otherwise evlnced oeep
interest in the great Roman.
Charles Will, King OF France was
nassonate admirer of the Commentaries.
This was so prominent point In his habits
of mind that the famous monk Robert
Gauni. presented the king, in l4SO, with
the translation he had just completed In
French of the eight books of the Gallo
wars. The fact is mentioned In the EDITION
of 1900, by the monk himself
The Emperor Charles V. was fervent
admirer of Caesar, and left among his papers
a copy of the Commentaries, filed with mar
/, ginal notes in the Emperor own handwrit-
ing. At his request the Viceroy OF Sicily
3 Ferdinand Gonzaga, dispatched to France
! scientific commission specially to study
e Caesars campaigns and battles, on the
Is ground. The forty plans drawn by this
re commission were published in 1878, In Stra-
ID da's edition of the Commentaries.
en- The Sultan, Soliman IL, the contempo-
e, rarv of Charles v, had all Europe ransacked
nd for copies of Caesars Commentaries. de
ne had them collated, and had a Turkish cdr
'se ton prepared for his daily reading. :.
ag Henry ", King of France, translated
attbe first two books of the Commentaries.
and ne Ms. was placed in the royal library, at
the rs. 1t was subsequently withdrawn Tor
ting the of Louis XIII. who then translated
,per the u last books of the Commentaries.
der botn 'ra'7 '7ations were combined, and PRINT
'fieu 1880.
6 On Louis AlV. hnslated the first book
= Ia the Commentaries,ybich was printed il
mn = folio with engraving. at Paris, in 1861
ders and tbo ed;t;on i now ,,ors 1een
The great Conde was clSe student
Caesar campaigns, and lent all '.is aid an
patronage to the translation of he Con
an mentaries, undertaken by Nicholas ,Porr
'uDt, d 'Ablancourt. This translation was the
L vorite one in the last century.
e at Christina, Queen of Sweden, composed
one volume entitled reflections on the Life al
way Acts of Caesar"
III OF Louis Phillippe's father, the Duke of
ssur- leans, nicknamed ''Egalite, was consta
me reader of the Commentaries. He had cal
n by fully nrenared man of Caesar's campaie
OBJ in Gaul
took Finally, Napoleon Bonaparte, whilst
'slng st. Helena dictated to Count Marcdand
lree, Summary of Caesars Wars" which t
slcal Count published at Paris, in 1886.
from Cicero said of the Commentaries "C@s
the has written memoirs worthy of great prail
iuty' Lacking in all oratorical art, his style, Ii
reak a handsome boy undressed, is unadorne
'orp- concise and graceful In thus furnishi
nile, material for future historians, he has, p,
at haps gratifed the narrow intellects W
pass will delight in overwhelming his natu
eara grace with frivolous ornament; but. for s,
-here sible men, he has deprived tlem forever
his the wish to write, for nothing is more agr
wav- able in history than correct and luminc
lever brevity.
Hortius said of the Commentaries ~
ONO have still better reason than others to adm
was the work for others only know how corr
,or of and precise the book is, whilst we know,
3 ev- addition, with what facility and speed it v
ont composed.