Chamfort: A BiographyUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 jun 1992 - 340 pagina's Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1740-1794), whom Nietzsche called the "wittiest of all moralists," is now known for little more than brillian aphorisms that captivated a long line of thinkers, from Stendhal to Cioran, Schopenhauer to Camus. Yet the fascination of Chamfort's life is barely suggested by the fragments of writing that have survived him. In Claude Arnaud's captivating biography, Chamfort the libertine, playwright, journalist, and revolutionary stands revealed as the most telling emblem of his times. |
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A Negative Fairy Tale | 3 |
Early Struggle against Anonymity | 10 |
The Mask | 25 |
Herculean Adonis | 32 |
Shattered Illusions | 38 |
Little Balloon | 46 |
Ironclad in Repelling Evil a Wax Mold in Accepting Good | 56 |
A Cabal against Mustapha 67 8 | 67 |
The PalaisRoyal Powderkeg | 142 |
The Bastille | 162 |
Normalcy | 171 |
Shattered Dreams | 188 |
The Académie Dismembered by a Member | 198 |
Doing Away with the Self | 206 |
The Monarchys Death Throes | 217 |
A Bad Dream | 229 |
AuteuilPassy | 75 |
Love and Only Love | 82 |
Long Live Mirabeau And Long Live the Charmer | 89 |
Julie | 103 |
From Moralist to Volcano | 111 |
Half Cockscomb Half Poppy | 131 |
His Own Executioner | 244 |
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4 | 277 |
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Contemporary Periodicals | 325 |
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