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Excerpt from Saint Simon
A secret historian; a geometrician, diseased in body and mind; a good easy man, always dreaming, and treated as a dreamer, - there you have the three artists of the seventeenth century. They have startled and perhaps a little shocked us all. La F ontaine, the happiest, was the most perfect; Pascal, Christian and philosopher, the most elevated; Saint Simon, given up entirely to his fancy, is the most powerful and the most true. 1 This is high praise, coming as it does from an accomplished critic like M. Taine, and must sound strange to many who know little of Saint Simon beyond the fact that he wrote memoirs of Louis xiv.'s reign. Most of the great writers of that age are familiar names enough to us. La Fontaine's Fables, Pascal's 'pensées, ' Fenelon's Télémaque, ' the plays of Moliere and Racine.
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