. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. Vri ^^. THOUGH there are many instancesof great statesmen on retiring frompolitical activity producing his-tories of their own times which areprized by succeeding generations,it is seldom that the successful liter-ary man develops into a leader of thepeople or director of affairs. The ac-tive man may subside into contem-plation ; the student cannot readilybe roused in to mastery of men. Per-haps the most striking exceptionto this rule is seen in the first Presi-dent of the Third French Adolphe Th
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. Vri ^^. THOUGH there are many instancesof great statesmen on retiring frompolitical activity producing his-tories of their own times which areprized by succeeding generations,it is seldom that the successful liter-ary man develops into a leader of thepeople or director of affairs. The ac-tive man may subside into contem-plation ; the student cannot readilybe roused in to mastery of men. Per-haps the most striking exceptionto this rule is seen in the first Presi-dent of the Third French Adolphe Thiers was bornat Marseilles, April i6, 1797, theStirred by the din of war, the boy wished; but his friends decided to bring him upto the law, and in due time he was admitted to the bar. Soonthe young advocate turned to literature as more to Paris, he contributed to the Constitiitionnel andbecame noted as a political writer. But he aimed at a moresolid reputation, and in 1823 he published the first volume ofhis History of the French Revohttion^ the last part of whichwas gi
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