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EMILE FAGUET (1847- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 126 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAGUET (1847- )  , See also:French critic and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at La See also:Roche sur See also:Yon on the 17th of See also:December 1847 . He was educated at the normal school in See also:Paris, and after teaching for some See also:time in La Rochelle and See also:Bordeaux he came to Paris . After acting as assistant See also:professor of See also:poetry in the university he became professor in 1897 . He was elected to the See also:academy in 1900, and received the ribbon of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in the next See also:year . He acted as dramatic critic to the Soleil; from 1892 he was See also:literary critic to the Revue bleue; and in 1896 took the See also:place of M . Jules See also:Lemaitre on the See also:Journal See also:des debats . Among his See also:works are monographs on See also:Flaubert (1899), See also:Andre Chestier (1902), See also:Zola (1903); an admirably concise Histoire de la litterature francaise depuis le XVIIe siecle jusqu'd nos jours; See also:series of literary studies on the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; Questions politiques (1899); Propos litteraires (3 series, 190.2-1905); Le Liberalisme (1902); and L'Anticlericalisme (1906) . See A . Sbche, Emile See also:Faguet (1904) . FA-HIEN (fi . A.D . 399-414), See also:Chinese Buddhist See also:monk, See also:pilgrim-traveller, and writer, author of one of the earliest and most valuable Chinese accounts of See also:India .

He started from Changgan or Si-gan-fu, then the See also:

capital of the Tsin See also:empire, and passing the See also:Great See also:Wall, crossed the " See also:River of See also:Sand ' or See also:Gobi See also:Desert beyond, that See also:home of " evil demons and hot winds," which he vividly describes,—where the only way-marks were the bones of the dead, where no See also:bird appeared in the See also:air above, no See also:animal on the ground below . Arriving at See also:Khotan, the traveller witnessed a great Buddhist festival; here, as in Yarkand, See also:Afghanistan and other parts thoroughly Islamized before the See also:close of the See also:middle ages, Fa-Hien shows us See also:Buddhism still prevailing . India was reached by a perilous descent of " ten thousand cubits " from the " wall-like hills " of the See also:Hindu Kush into the See also:Indus valley (about A.D . 402); and the pilgrim passed the next ten years in the " central " Buddhist See also:realm,--making journeys to Peshawur and Afghanistan (especially the See also:Kabul region) on one See also:side, and to the See also:Ganges valley on another . His especial concern was the exploration of the scenes of See also:Buddha's See also:life, the copying of Buddhist texts, and converse with the Buddhist monks and sages whom the Brahmin reaction had not yet driven out . Thus we find him at Buddha's birthplace on the Kohana, See also:north-See also:west of See also:Benares; in See also:Patna and on the See also:Vulture See also:Peak near Patna; at the Jetvana, monastery in Oudh; as well as at See also:Muttra on the See also:Jumna, at See also:Kanauj, and at See also:Tamluk near the mouth of the See also:Hugli . But now the narrative, which in its earlier portions was primarily See also:historical and See also:geographical, becomes mystical and theological; See also:miracle-stories and meditations upon Buddhist moralities and sacred memories almost entirely replace matters of fact . From the Ganges See also:delta Fa-Hien sailed with a See also:merchant See also:ship, in fourteen days, to See also:Ceylon, where he transcribed all the sacred books, as yet unknown in See also:China, which he could find; witnessed the festival of the See also:exhibition of Buddha's tooth; and remarked the See also:trade of Arab merchants to the See also:island,. two centuries before See also:Mahomet . He returned by See also:sea to the mouth of the Yangtse-Kiang, changing vessels at See also:Java, and narrowly escaping shipwreck or the See also:fate of See also:Jonah . Fa-Hien's See also:work is valuable See also:evidence to the strength, and in many places to the dominance, of Buddhism in central See also:Asia and in India at the time of the collapse of the See also:Roman empire in western See also:Europe . His See also:tone throughout is that of the devout, learned, sensible, rarely hysterical pilgrim-traveller . His See also:record is careful and accurate, and most of his positions can be identified; his devotion is so strong that it leads him to depreciate China as a " border-See also:land," India the home of Buddha being the true " middle See also:kingdom " of his creed .

See See also:

James See also:Legge, Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, being an See also:account by the Chinese Monk Fd-hien of his, travels in India and Ceylon; translated and edited, with See also:map, &c . (See also:Oxford, 1886) ; S . Beal, Travels of Fah-Hian and Sung-Yun, Buddhist pilgrims from China to India, 400 and 518 A.D., translated, with map, &c . (1869) ; C . R . Beazley, See also:Dawn of See also:Modern See also:Geography, vol. i . (1897), pp .

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