by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Jacques Bainville · ISBN 9791021005167
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«Quelques figures de l’histoire» (Tallandier, 2014) is a collection of historical portraits by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, with a preface by Jacques Bainville.
This work brings together a selection of portraits that Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve published in his Causeries du lundi. They are sketches of historical figures, mainly French, written with a critical and erudite eye that combines biographical data with interpretation of character.
The edition is from Tallandier éditions, 2014, with 252 pages in French; subtitle: portraits extraits des «Causeries du lundi». It belongs to the collection directed by Jean-Claude Zylberstein.
For readers interested in French history, biographical portraiture, and the French literary essay.
Jacques Pierre Bainville was a French historian and journalist. A geopolitical theorist, concerned by Franco-German relations, he was a leading figure in the monarchist Action Française. As fascinated as he was worried by Germany which continuously grew stronger, he intensely advocated against democracy, the French Revolution, internationalism and liberalism. A plaza is named after him at the heart of the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
