Histoire de la Littérature Française [History of French Literature] (French)
Title
Histoire de la Littérature Française [History of French Literature] (French)
Text Read
Histoire de la Littérature Française [History of French Literature] (French)
Author
Nisard, Jean Marie Napoleon Desir
Original Source
Paris: Didot Frères, 1844
Publication Date
1844
Date(s) of Reading
- 1869-07-15; 1869-07-25; 1869-08-01
Evidence
1869-07-15: "15. Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Comines, Villon." Diary 1861-1877 136
1869-07-25: "25. Sunday. Read Plato's Republic, in various parts. After lunch, Miss N. Smith, Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton and Mr. Deutsch. In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte." Diary 1861-1877 137
1869-08-01: "Aug. 1. Since last Sunday I have had an uncomfortable week from mental and bodily disturbance. I have finished eleven Sonnets on "Brother and Sister", read Littre, Nisard; part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings. On Thursday: the evening was occupied with Gertrude and Charles, Monday evening with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the British Museum to see a new bronze, and I was enchanted with some fragments of glass in the Slade Collection, with dyes of sunset in them. Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakspeare's sonnets. Poor Thornie has had a miserably unsatisfactory week, making no progress. After lunch came Miss N. Smith and Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Burne Jones and Mr. Sanderson." Diary 1861-1877 137
1869-07-25: "25. Sunday. Read Plato's Republic, in various parts. After lunch, Miss N. Smith, Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton and Mr. Deutsch. In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte." Diary 1861-1877 137
1869-08-01: "Aug. 1. Since last Sunday I have had an uncomfortable week from mental and bodily disturbance. I have finished eleven Sonnets on "Brother and Sister", read Littre, Nisard; part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings. On Thursday: the evening was occupied with Gertrude and Charles, Monday evening with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the British Museum to see a new bronze, and I was enchanted with some fragments of glass in the Slade Collection, with dyes of sunset in them. Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakspeare's sonnets. Poor Thornie has had a miserably unsatisfactory week, making no progress. After lunch came Miss N. Smith and Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Burne Jones and Mr. Sanderson." Diary 1861-1877 137
Citation
Nisard, Jean Marie Napoleon Desir, Histoire de la Littérature Française [History of French Literature] (French), George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57504