The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

La Bruyère

Free public domain

La Bruyère · 38 chapters

No sign-in needed for chapter one. Sign in later to continue and sync your progress.

Chapters

Without signing in you can open chapter 1 as a sample; later chapters need an account.

• HEAD ORNAMENTSample
• M. Bruyèreʼs Speech upon his Admission into the
• FOOT ORNAMENT
• THE AUTHOR
• Preface
• MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
• TIRED OUT
• THE TOILETTE
• IV. OF THE AFFECTIONS.
• Preface
• RUSTIC COURTSHIP
• THE TUILERIES
• THE COURT
• Preface
• THE GREAT
• Preface
• THE PRICE OF GLORY
• XI. OF MANKIND.
• Preface
• DIFFERENT OPINIONS
• Preface
• WILLIAM III
• THE BIRD-FANCIER
• Preface
• C ERTAIN people want a fortune to becomeennobled.746
• Preface
• MONK PREACHING
• Preface
• 1 Pascalʼs
• 9 All the passages on pages
• 15 Wattʼs “Bibliotheca Britannica.”
• 18 The re are few portraits in Shaftesburyʼs “Characteristics;” one of the
• 45 It is said that the great dramatic poet Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)
• 51 Probably Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) is meant here.
• 53 Those “able men” were the dramatist Jean Racine (1639-1699) and the
• 57 In his
• Preface
• XIV. Fénelon became archbishop of Cambrai in 1695.