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The past year saw the conclusion of Nisard's work, the most comprehensive history of French literature. Par D. Nisard, de l'Académie Française, Inspecteur-Général de l'Enseignement Supérieur.
When and why the name of the Duke of Marlborough was substituted for that of the Duc de Guise has never been ascertained. See "Chansons Populaires," par Charles Nisard: Paris, Dentu, 1867. Tr. The day on which Theodore de Beze and Chaudieu arrived in Paris, the court returned from Rheims, where Charles IX. was crowned.
But between 1830 and 1860 the French had a very strong critical school indeed a school whose scholars and masters showed the dæmonic, or at least prophetic, inspiration of Michelet, the milder and feebler but still inspiring enthusiasm of Quinet, the academic clearness and discipline of Villemain and Nisard, the Lucianic wit of Mérimée, the matchless appreciation of Gautier, and, above all, the great new critical idiosyncrasy of Sainte-Beuve.
Ponsard revives the classical traditions of the seventeenth century. In criticism this endeavour in the direction of the sensible and the classical, is represented by Nisard, Planche, and Sainte-Beuve in his second manner. III. The third tendency of the century Is Realistic Art, with physiological characteristics.
At the roll call, when M. Pasquier's name was reached he said: "Monsieur the Chancellor " When he got to that of M. Dupin, President of the National Assembly, he called: "Monsieur Dupin." First ballot. Alfred de Musset 5 votes. M. Nisard 23 " M. Nisard is elected. To-day, September 12, the Academy worked at the dictionary.
Nisard, another professor, thinks that André Chénier is, as a poet, beneath the seventeenth century. Blair, an Englishman, finds fault with the picture of the harpies in Virgil. Marmontel groans over the liberties taken by Homer. Lamotte does not admit the immortality of his heroes. Vida is indignant at his similes.
Désiré Nisard says that Marguerite d'Angoulême was the first to write prose that can be read without the aid of a vocabulary; in verse, she excels all poets of her time in sympathy and compassion; her poetry is "a voice which complains—a heart which suffers and which tells us so."
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