Portraits of the eighteenth century, historic and literary.
Subtitle: [Translated by Katherine P. Wormeley]  With an introd. by Ruth Mulhauser.
Publisher: F. Ungar Pub. Co.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography -- 18th century; France -- Biography.
Notes: "Taken from "Causeries du lundi"..."Portraits de femmes" and "Portraits littéraires.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  Introduction: Sainte-Beuve, by E. Scherer.  Duchesse du Maine.  Madame de Staal-Delaunay.  Le Sage.  Montesquieu.  Adrienne Le Couvreur.  Voltaire.  Marquise du Deffand.  Earl of Chesterfield. Benjamin Franklin.  Madame Geoffrin.  The Abbé Barthélemy.  Louis XV.; title: v. 2.  Abbé Provost.  Madame de Lambert and Madame Necker.  Denis Diderot.  Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  Friedrich Melchior Grimm.  Madame d'Épinay.  Buffon.  Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.  Frederick the Great. Wilhelmina, Margravine of Baireuth.  Beaumarchais.  Jacques Necker. Marie-Antoinette.