A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by François Guizot

Author:François Guizot [Guizot, François]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781523871544
Google: WvLMjwEACAAJ
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-02-04T03:14:46+00:00

said Boileau subsequently.

The dispute was ended, and, in spite of the judgment of the Academy, the cardinal did not come out of it victorious; his anger, however, had ceased: the Duchess of Aiguillon, his niece, accepted the dedication of the Cid; when Horace appeared, in 1639, the dedicatory epistle, addressed to the cardinal, proved that Corneille read his works to him beforehand; the cabal appeared for a while on the point of making head again. “Horace, condemned by the decemvirs, was acquitted by the people,” said Corneille. The same year Cinna came to give the finishing touch to the reputation of the great poet:—

“To the persecuted Cid the Cinna owed its birth.”

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