Lacretelle's Histoire de France; Anquetil; Henri Martin's History of France; Dulaure's Histoire de Paris; Lord Brougham's Lives of Rousseau and Voltaire; Memoires de Madame de Pompadour; Mémoires de Madame Du Barry; Revue des Deux Mondes, 1847; Château de Lucienne; L'Ami des Hommes, par M. le Marquis de Mirabeau; Maximes Générales du Gouvernement, par Le Docteur Quesnay;

" MAXIME DU CAMP (Mémoires d'un suicidé).

Nescio quomodo inhæret in mentibus quasi seculorum quoddam augurium futurorum; idque in maximis ingeniis altissimisque animis et existit maxime et apparet facillime.

Thus La Rochefoucauld in his Maxims (Réflexions, ou Sentences et Maximes Morales, 1665), La Bruyère (Les Charactères

In the letter just quoted, she writes: "I am reading Fenelon's 'Maximes des Saints,' and many of his ideas please me exceedingly.

"Explication des Maximes des Saints sur la Vie Intérieure" is the full title of the famous little work first named.

We brought with us a beautifully bound set of French classics, and we read Voltaire one day, and La Bruyère the next, and Pascal, and Fontenelle, and Molière, and Fénelon, and the sermons of Bossuet, and since I have been seventeen the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld.

" "All women profess to have a little taste for philosophy and beautifully bound Marcus Aureliuses, and Maximes, and love poemsclever little scraps covered in exquisite bindings.

"I see you have marked some of the maximes.

In this case I believe the ground would be unfavourable to this House, and I believe the juncture is one when, even if we were to win for the moment, our victory would be fruitless in the end.' Maximes de Guerre et Penseés de Napoleon Ier (Chapelot), p. 230.

It would be easy to compile a book of sayings from Balzac that would make all "Maximes" and "Pensées," even those of La Rochefoucauld or Joubert, seem trivial and shallow.

ter maxime rerum!

Maximes sur la guerre.

Maximes sur la guerre.

Maximes et reflexions de Goethe.

Maximes et reflexions de Goethe.

Maximes sur la guerre.

Maximes sur la guerre.

SEE Leroy, Maxime.

Maximes et reflexions de Goethe.

Maximes et reflexions de Goethe.

His friends had constrained him to publish a little book, one only, the Introduction de la connaissance de l'esprit humain, suivie de reflexions et de maximes.

Both the silence of the author, and the blunder of his editor, seem to me to prove that Les Maximes are not as generally known and studied as they deserve to be.

It is entitled: "Les Maximes de la Gentillesse et de l'Honnesteté en la Conversation entre les Hommes.

It would be easy to compile a book of sayings from Balzac that would make all "Maximes" and "Pensées," even those of La Rochefoucauld or Joubert, seem trivial and shallow.