See also:

• ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540)
• ABEL (Hebrew for breath)
• ABEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1725-1787)
• ABEL, NIELS HENRIK (1802-1829)
• ABEL, SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, BART

ABEL See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

• ABEL FRANCOIS VILLEMAIN (179o-1867)

VILLEMAIN (179o-1867)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French politician and See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of letters, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the qth of See also:

• JUNE

June 1790 . He was educated at the lycee See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis-le-See also:

• GRAND

Grand, and became assistant See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master at the lycee See also:

• CHARLEMAGNE [CHARLES THE GREAT] (c. 742-814)
• CHARLEMAGNE, JEAN ARMAND (1753–1838)

Charlemagne, and subsequently at the ?tole Normale . In 1812 he gained a See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize from the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy with an eioge on See also:

• MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE (1533-1592)

Montaigne . Under the restoration he was appointed, first, asistant See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• HISTORY

history, and then professor of French eloquence at the See also:

• SORBONNE

Sorbonne . Here he delivered a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

• LITERARY

literary lectures which had an extra-See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary effect on his younger contemporaries . See also:

• VILLEMAIN, ABEL FRANCOIS (179o-1867)

Villemain had the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage of coming just before the Romantic See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement, of having a wide and See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

catholic love of literature withoutbeing an extremist . All, or almost all, the See also:

• CLEVER

clever See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young men of the brilliant See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation of 1830 passed under his See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence; and, while he pleased the Romanticists by his See also:

• FRANK, JAKOB (1726-1791)

frank appreciation of the beauties of See also:

• ENGLISH

English, See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian and See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• POETRY

poetry, he had not the least inclination to decry the See also:

• CLASSICS

classics—either the classics proper of See also:

• GREECE

Greece and See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome or the so-called classics of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . In 1819 he published a See also:

• BOOK

book on See also:

• CROMWELL, HENRY (1628-1674)
• CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658)
• CROMWELL, RICHARD (1626–1712)
• CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF

Cromwell, and two years later he was elected to the Academy . Ville-See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main was appointed by the restoration See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government " chef de 1'imprimerie et de la librairie," a See also:

• POST

post involving a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of irregular censorship of the See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press, and afterwards to the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of master of See also:

• REQUESTS, COURT OF

requests . Before the revolution of See also:

• JULY

July he had been deprived of his office for his liberal tendencies, and had been elected See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy for See also:

• EVREUX

Evreux . Under Louis Philippe he received a See also:

• PEERAGE
• PEERAGE (Fr. pairage, med. Lat. paragium; M.E. Pere, 0. Fr. per, peer, later pair; Lat. Paris, " equal ")

peerage in 1832 . He was a member of the See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of public instruction, and was twice See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of that See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, and he also became secretary of the Academy .

During the whole of the July See also:

• MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

monarchy he was thus one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief dispensers of literary patronage in France, but in his later years his reputation declined . He died in Paris on the 8th of May 1867 . Villemain's chief See also:

• WORK

work is his Cosies de la litterature francaise (5 vols., 1828-29) . Among his other See also:

• WORKS

works are : Tableau de la litterature du moyen dge (2 vols., 1846) ; Tableau de la litterature au X VIII° siecle (4 vols., 1864) ; Souvenirs contemporains (2 vols., 1856) ; Histoire de See also:

• GREGOIRE, HENRI (1750—1831)

Gregoire VII . (2 vols., 1873; Eng. trans., 1874) . Among notices on Villemain may be cited that of Louis de Lomenie (1841), E . Mirecourt (1858), J . L . Dubut (1875) . See also Sainte-Beuve, Portraits (1841, vol. iii.), and Causeries du lundi (vol. xi . " Notes et pensees ") .