Project Gutenberg 2004-06-26 Public domain in the USA. 94 Faguet, Émile 1847 1916 Faguet, Emile Faguet, Auguste-Émile Études Littéraires; dix-huitième siècle Études Littéraires - XVIIIe siècle. Reading ease score: 64.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Pierre Bayle -- Fontenelle -- Le Sage -- Marivaux -- Montesquieu -- Voltaire -- Diderot -- J.J. Rousseau -- Buffon -- Mirabeau -- André Chénier. Produced by Miranda van de Heijning, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) "Études Littéraires; dix-huitième siècle" by Émile Faguet is a critical analysis written in the late 19th century focusing on the literature of the 18th century. This work delves into the ideas and influences of major writers from that era, such as Pierre Bayle, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau, examining how their thoughts reflect the broader cultural and philosophical changes of their time. Faguet contends that the 18th century is characterized by a notable decline in moral and literary standards when compared to the preceding and succeeding centuries, largely due to the era's distancing from Christian and nationalistic ideals. The opening of the book establishes the author's purpose in addressing students of literature and critiques the writers of the 18th century as more concerned with ideas than artistic techniques. Faguet outlines key themes of the period, such as the rejection of traditional moral frameworks and the rise of individualism against a backdrop of political stagnation. He offers a detailed examination of significant figures, beginning with Bayle, asserting that his approach to philosophy serves as a precursor to the broader intellectual trends that define the century, marked by skepticism, a detachment from Christian thought, and a complex relationship with concepts of nationality and morality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism PQ Text FR Littérature Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature 1040664 1039680 2024-10-06T04:32:21.571937 2023-10-06T06:31:00.908623 text/html text/html 1009996 2020-12-15T04:43:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 373720 2020-12-15T04:43:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 461053 2024-10-06T04:32:34.636813 application/epub+zip 478196 2024-10-06T04:32:25.624866 application/epub+zip 468555 2024-10-06T04:32:24.048928 application/epub+zip 843161 2024-10-06T04:32:41.602814 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 814051 2024-10-06T04:32:33.607822 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 782813 2022-09-06T22:17:10.727048 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 989231 989006 2024-10-06T04:32:20.024974 2023-10-06T06:30:59.633645 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 961653 2020-12-15T04:43:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 362737 2020-12-15T04:43:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 961645 2020-12-15T04:43:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 356287 2020-12-15T04:43:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22335 2024-10-06T04:32:41.749773 application/rdf+xml 15776 2024-10-06T04:32:24.641865 image/jpeg 3582 2024-10-06T04:32:24.341879 image/jpeg 449269 2024-10-06T04:32:21.667869 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia