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In reality, the treuga Dei, like the league started under Louis le Gros for the defence against both the robberies of the nobles and the Norman invasions, was a thoroughly popular movement. Ferrari, i. 152, 263, etc. Perrens, Histoire de Florence, i. 188; Ferrari, l.c., i. 283. Aug. Thierry, Essai sur l'histoire du Tiers Etat, Paris, 1875, p. 414, note.
Tell me whether you have seen Madame de Stael's Essai sur la Fiction, prefixed to Zulma, Adelaide, and Pauline the essay is excellent: I shall be curious to know whether you think as I do of Pauline. Madame de Stael calls Blenheim "a magnificent tomb: splendour without, and the deathlike silence of ennui within." She says she is very proud of having made the Duke of Marlborough speak four words.
Chapelain's ridiculous poem gave the idea to Voltaire of his licentious one. Even Voltaire was ashamed of his work, and long denied that he was its author. As a very slight reparation for his deed, he writes of Joan of Arc in his Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des natives, that the heroine would have had altars built in the days when altars were erected by primitive men to their liberators.
It is at this point that Bergson offers us some help in the solution of the problem, by his Essai sur les donnees immediates de la conscience, better described by its English title Time and Free Will.
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