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VAUVENARGUES, LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE (1715-1747) , French moralist and miscellaneous writer, was born at Aix in Provence on the 6th of August 1715. His family was poor though noble; he was educated at the college of Aix, where he learned littleneither Latin nor Greekbut by means of a translation acquired a great
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retreat from Prague. On this occasion his legs were frozen, and though he spent a long time in hospital
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The bulk of Vauvenargues's work
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minor fragments, it consists, in fact, of detached and somewhat desultory thoughts on questions of moral philosophy and of literary criticism. Sainte-Beuve has mildly said that as a literary critic Vauvenargues " shows inexperience." His literary criticism is indeed limited to a repetition in crude form of the stock ideas of his time. Thus he exaggerates immensely the value of Racine and Boileau, but depreciates Corneille and even Moliere. As a writer he stands far higher. His style is indeed, according to strict academic judgment, somewhat incorrect, and his few excursions into rhetoric have the artificial and affected character which mars so much 18th-century work
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r1 and his great predecessor La Rochefoucauld is that Vauvenargues, unlike La Rochefoucauld, thinks nobly of man, and is altogether inclined rather to the Stoic than to the Epicurean theory. He has indeed been called a modern Stoic, and, allowing for the vagueness of all such phrases, there is much to be said for the description. An edition of the Euvres of Vauvenargues, slightly enlarged, appeared in the year of his death. There were some subsequent editions, superseded by that of M. Gilbert (2 vols., 1857), which contains some correspondence, some Dialogues of the Dead, " characters " in imitation of Theophrastus and La Gruyere, and numerous short pieces of criticism and moralizing. The best comments on Vauvenargues, besides those contained in Gilbert's edition, are to be found in four essays by Sainte-Beuve in Causeries du lundi, vols. iii. and xiv., and in Villemain's Tableau de la litterature francaise au X VIII'" sibcle. See also M. Paleologue, Vauvenargues (189o); and Selections from La Bruyere and Vauvenargues, with memoir and notes by Miss Elizabeth Lee (1903). End of Article: VAUVENARGUES, LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE (1715-1747) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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