Portraits of the Eighteenth Century. Historical and Literary, Vol. II 14+

📖 Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) was a historian and critic of French literature. This is the second volume of his 1828 Tableau de la poésie française au seizième siècle, which includes the Abbe Prevost, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Frederick the Great, Beaumarchais, and Marie Antoinette.