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See also:BONSTETTEN, See also:CHARLES See also:VICTOR DE (1745-1832) , Swiss writer, an excellent type of a liberal patrician, more See also:French than Swiss, and a See also:good representative of the Gallicized See also:Bern of the 18th See also:century. By See also:birth a member of one of the See also:great patrician families of Bern, he was educated in his native See also:town, at Yverdon, and (1763—1766) at See also:Geneva, where he came under the See also:influence of See also:Rousseau and of Charles See also:Bonnet, and imbibed liberal sentiments. Recalled to Bern by his See also:father, he was soon sent to See also:Leiden, and then visited (1769) See also:England, where he became a friend of the poet See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray. After his father's See also:death (1770) he made a See also:long See also:journey in See also:Italy, and on his return to Bern (1774) entered See also:political See also:life, for which he was unfitted by See also:reason of his liberal ideas, which led him to patronize and encourage Johannes See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller, the future Swiss historian. In 1779 he was named the Bernese See also:bailiff of Saanen or Gessenay (here he wrote his Lettres pastorales sur une contree de la Suisse, published in See also:German in 1781), and in 1787 was transferred in a similar capacity to Nyon, from which See also:post he had to retire after taking See also:part (1791) in a festival to celebrate the destruction of the See also:Bastille. From 1795 to 1797 he governed (for the Swiss See also:Confederation) the See also:Italian-speaking districts of See also:Lugano, See also:Locarno, Mendrisio and Val Maggia, of which he published (1797) a pleasing description, and into which he is said to have introduced the cultivation of the See also:potato. The French revolution of 1798 in See also:Switzerland drove him again into private life. He spent the years 1798 to 18o, in See also:Denmark, with his friend Fredirika Brun, and then settled down in 1803 in Geneva for the See also:rest of his life. There he enjoyed the society of many distinguished persons, among whom was (1809-1817) Madame de See also:Stael. It was during this See also:period that he published his most celebrated See also:work, L'Homme du midi et l'homme du See also:nord (1824), a study of the influence of See also:climate on different nations, the See also:north being exalted at the expense of the See also:south. Among his other See also:works are the Recherches sur la nature et See also:les lois de ?See also:imagination (1807), and the Etudes de l'homme, ou Recherches sur les facultes de penser et de sentir (1821), but he was better as an observer than as a philosopher.
Lives by A.
Steinlen (See also:Lausanne, 186o), by C. See also:Morell (See also:Winterthur, 1861), and by R. Willy (Bern, 1898). See also vol. xiv. of Sainte-Beuve's Causeries du Lundi. (W. A. B.
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