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CHASLES, See also:VICTOR EUPHEMIEN PHILARETE (1798-1873) , See also:French critic and See also:man of letters, was See also:born at Mainvilliers (See also:Eure et Loir) on the 8th of See also:October 1798. His See also:father, See also:Pierre Jacques See also:Michel Chasles (1754-1826), was a member of the See also:Convention, and was one of those who voted the See also:death of See also:Louis XVI. He brought up his son according to the principles of See also:Rousseau's Emile, and the boy, after a regime of outdoor See also:life, followed by some years' classical study, was apprenticed to a printer, so that he might make acquaintance with See also:manual labour. His See also:master was involved in one of the plots of 1815, and Philarete suffered two months' imprisonment. On his See also:release he was sent to See also:London, where he worked for the printer See also:Valpy on See also:editions of classical authors. He wrote articles for the See also:English reviews, and on his return to See also:France did much to popularize the study of English authors. He was also one of the earliest to draw See also:attention in France to Scandinavian and See also:Russian literature. He contributed to the Revue See also:des deux mondes, until he had a violent See also:quarrel, terminating in a lawsuit, with See also:Francois Buloz, who won his See also:case. He became librarian of the Bibliotheque Mazarine, and from 1841 was See also:professor of See also:comparative literature at the See also:College de France. During his active life he produced some fifty volumes of See also:literary See also:history and See also:criticism, and of social history, much of which is extremely valuable. He died at See also:Venice on the 18th of See also:July 1873. His son, Emile Chasles (b.

1827), was a philologist of some reputation. Among his best See also:

critical See also:works is See also:Dix-huitieme Siecle en Angleterre (1846), one of a See also:series of 20 vols. of Etudes de [literature See also:corn See also:pane (1846–1875), which he called later Trente ans de critique. An See also:account of his strenuous boyhood is given in his Maison de mon Pere. His Memoires (1876–1877) did not fulfil the expectations based on his brilliant talk.

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