Portraits of the eighteenth century
Subtitle: historic and literary
By: by C.A. Sainte-Beuve ; translated by Katharine P. Wormeley ; with a critical introduction by Edmond Scherer.
Contributors: Wormeley, Katharine Prescott.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1905
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Biography -- 18th century; France -- Biography
Table of contents: title: v. 1. 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 Prévost. 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.