Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 3 (of 6) 39/50 What her intellectual development lacked was a greater knowledge of the world and intercourse with men of superior judgment to her own. Roland himself had little intellectual breadth, while all those who frequented her house never rose above the prejudices of the vulgar."] [Footnote 2228: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.] [Footnote 2229: Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la Revolution Francaise," IIIrd part, ch. III.-Madame de Stael conversed with them and judges them according to the shrewd perceptions of a woman of the world.] [Footnote 2230: Louvet, "Memoires" 32. |