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TAILLANDIER , See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

SAINT-RENE (1817-1879), See also:

French critic, whose See also:

ORIGINAL

original name was Rene Gaspard Ernest Taillandier, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

Paris on the 16th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1817. He completed his studies at See also:

HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, and then became See also:

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

professor of literature successively at See also:

STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg, See also:

MONTPELLIER

Montpellier and the See also:

SORBONNE

Sorbonne, where he was nominated to the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of French eloquence in 1868. Most of the articles included in his published volumes first appeared in the Revue See also:

DES

des deux mondes. In See also:

JANUARY

January 1870 he became See also:

general secretary of the See also:

MINISTRY

ministry of See also:

EDUCATION

education, and continued in this 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 after the fall of the See also:

EMPIRE

Empire. He became officer of the See also:

LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour in 1870, and was elected to the See also:

Academy in 1873. He died in Paris on the 22nd of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1879. His See also:

WORKS

works include:—Allemagne et Russie, etudes historiques et litteraires (1856), Le Poete du Caucase . See also:

Michel Lermontoff (1856), See also:

Maurice de See also:

Saxe (2 vols. 1865), Tcheques et See also:

MAGYARS

Magyars (1869), Le General Philippe de See also:

Segur '(1815).

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