The French Procession

Download or read book The French Procession written by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of a great nation as it passes down the ages appears as a spectacle, a progress, wherein every figure is the embodiment of a whole invisible plexus of secret influences, ideas, traditions, and revolts. For if the passions and feelings of men remain almost unaltered, their ideas and their ideals change with every age. Each man begins where his predecessor stared, profits by his acquirements, and carries on the message. This book offers--in English--biographical sketches of the lives of the famous French writers who comprise (for this author) that progress.