26 Facts About Edgar Quinet

Edgar Quinet was a French historian and intellectual.

Edgar Quinet, who was an only child, was usually alone, but his mother exercised great influence over him.

Edgar Quinet was sent to school first in Bourg and then in Lyon.

Edgar Quinet's father wished him on leaving school to go into the army, and then enter a business career.

Edgar Quinet was determined to engage in literature, and after a time got his way when he moved to Paris in 1820.

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Edgar Quinet became impressed with German intellectual writing and undertook translating Johann Gottfried Herder's Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit learnt German for the purpose, and published his work in 1827, and obtained through it considerable credit.

Edgar Quinet had visited Germany and the United Kingdom before the appearance of his book.

Edgar Quinet became acquainted with and a lover of the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1838.

Edgar Quinet wrote several lectures praising Emerson's works which were published with the title of Le Christianisme et la Revolution Francaise in 1845.

Edgar Quinet's chair was that of Southern Literature, but, neglecting his proper subject, he chose, in conjunction with Michelet, to engage in a violent polemic with the Jesuits and with Ultramontanism.

Edgar Quinet was dismissed in 1846 by the College de France for his adamant attacks on the Roman Catholic Church, exaltation of the revolution, support for the oppressed nationalities of France and for supporting the theory that religion is a determining force in societies.

Edgar Quinet joined the rioters during the 1848 Revolution which overthrew King Louis-Philippe of France, and was elected by the departement of Ain to the Constituent and then to the Legislative Assembly, where he affiliated with the extreme radical party.

Edgar Quinet had published in 1848 Les Revolutions d'Italie, one of his main works.

Edgar Quinet wrote numerous pamphlets during the short-lived Second French Republic, attacked the Roman expedition with all his strength and was from the first an uncompromising opponent of Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.

Edgar Quinet fled Louis Napoleon's 1851 coup d'etat to Brussels until 1858 and then fled to Veytaux, Switzerland, until 1870.

Edgar Quinet's wife had died some time previously, and he now married Hermiona Asachi, the daughter of Gheorghe Asachi, a Romanian poet.

In Brussels, Edgar Quinet lived for some seven years, during which he published Les Esclaves, a dramatic poem, Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde, a study of the Reformer in which he emphasizes Sainte-Aldegonde's literary merit, and some other books.

Edgar Quinet had refused to return to France to join the liberal opposition against Napoleon III, but returned immediately after the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War.

Edgar Quinet was then restored to his professorship, and during the siege of Paris wrote vehemently against the Germans.

Edgar Quinet was elected deputy to the National Assembly by the departement of the Seine in 1871, and was one of the most obstinate opponents of the terms of peace between France and Germany.

Edgar Quinet continued to write till his death, which occurred at Versailles in 1875.

Edgar Quinet had already in 1858 published a semi-autobiographical book called Histoire de mes idees.

Edgar Quinet's character was extremely amiable, and his letters to his mother, his accounts of his early life, and so forth, are likely always to make him interesting.

Edgar Quinet was a man of great moral conscientiousness, and as far as intention went perfectly disinterested.

Edgar Quinet refused to submit himself to any form of positive orthodoxy, yet when a man like Strauss pushed unorthodoxy to its extreme limits Quinet revolted.

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Edgar Quinet is less inaccurate in fact than Michelet, but he is much less absorbed by a single idea at a time, and the result is that he seldom attains to the vivid representation of which Michelet was a master.