. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . dliterary persons of the times. In 1809,he published his first work, a Dic-tionary of Synonyms, which was fol-lowed by Lives of the French Poets,and by an edition of Gibbons De-cline and Fall of the Roman Empire,with historical notes by the Guizot had been for some time aperiodical writer, and his Ajinals ofEducation, in 6 vols. 8vo, extendfrom 1811 to 1813. His talents werealready known,
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . dliterary persons of the times. In 1809,he published his first work, a Dic-tionary of Synonyms, which was fol-lowed by Lives of the French Poets,and by an edition of Gibbons De-cline and Fall of the Roman Empire,with historical notes by the Guizot had been for some time aperiodical writer, and his Ajinals ofEducation, in 6 vols. 8vo, extendfrom 1811 to 1813. His talents werealready known, when, in 1812, M. deFontanes attached him to the Univer-sity of Paris, as assistant in the Pro-fessorship of History, in the Facultyof Letters, and not long afterwardsnamed him Professor of Modern His-tory, a chair which he was peculiarlyfitted to occupy with distinction. Inthe winter of 1812, he married Made-moiselle Pauline de Meulau, a lady ofbirth, whose family had been ruinedby the Revolution, and who supportedherself and others of her family byjournalism. She was engaged in theeditorship of a magazine called ThePublicist, and it is said that the as-sistance she received in the conduct.
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