爱默生，拉尔夫·沃尔多。1803-1882. Emerson笔记本上的亲笔签名手稿，讨论了法国启蒙运动和学术界的关键人物，

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EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. 1803–1882.:Autograph Manuscript from Emerson\’s notebook, discussing key figures of the French Enlightenment and the Academie, 241 x 182 mm, laid into a larger sheet, ink on light blue paper, numbered \”80\” in upper right corner, [Boston? c.1853], tape to verso at fold.

AN UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH LEAF FROM EMERSON\’S NOTEBOOK CONCERNING FIGURES OF THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT. Headed \”Academie,\” the manuscript gives a brief relation of major French thinkers to the Academie Francaise: Richelieu \”wd not have established it if he cd have seen revolution in it…\”; Saint-Pierre \”induced the Acad to substitute Hope of great men for frivolous subjects\”; Montesquieu \”said, the academie had no other functions than to chatter without end.\” Emerson had visited Paris during the revolution of 1848 and held a high opinion of the French. It is likely this manuscript was produced in 1853 in conjunction with an important series of lectures Emerson would give beginning in January 1854, including \”France, or Urbanity.\” The subject, tone and wit exhibited in the manuscript resemble that of the lecture but has never been published or identified in the lecture.

爱默生，拉尔夫·沃尔多。1803-1882. Emerson笔记本上的亲笔签名手稿，讨论了法国启蒙运动和学术界的关键人物，