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CHARLES ROLLIN (1661-1741)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 468 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:ROLLIN (1661-1741)  , See also:French historian and educationist, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 3oth of See also:January 1661 . He was the son of a See also:cutler, and at the See also:age of twenty-two was made a See also:master in the See also:College du Plessis . In 1694 he was See also:rector of the university of Paris, rendering See also:great service among other things by reviving the study of See also:Greek . He held that See also:post for two years instead of one, and in 1699 was appointed See also:principal of the College de See also:Beauvais . See also:Rollin held Jansenist principles, and even went so far as to defend the miracles supposed to be worked at the See also:tomb of See also:Francois de Paris, commonly known as See also:Deacon Paris . Unfortunately his religious opihions deprived him of his appointments and disqualified him for the rectorship, to which in 1719 he had been re-elected . It is said that the same See also:reason prevented his See also:election to the French See also:Academy, though he was a member of the Academy of See also:Inscriptions . Shortly before his See also:death (14th See also:December 1741) he protested publicly against the See also:acceptance of the See also:bull Unigenitus . Rollin's See also:literary See also:work See also:dates chiefly from the later years of his See also:life, when he had been forbidden to See also:teach . His once famous See also:Ancient See also:History (Paris, 1730-38), and the less generally read See also:Roman History, which followed it, were avowed compilations, uncritical and somewhat inaccurate . But they instructed and interested See also:generation after generation almost to the See also:present See also:day . A more See also:original and really important work was his Traite See also:des etudes (Paris, 1726-31) .

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summary of what was even then a reformed and innovating See also:system of See also:education, including a more frequent and extensive use of the vulgar See also:tongue, and discarded the See also:medieval traditions that had lingered in See also:France . See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. vi .

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