See also: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)
.
It contains a See also: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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