Volume 5 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 5 (of 6) 51/68 167-215 and pp 311-357.)] [Footnote 3325: The declaration of Human Rights in 1789 stated that: "art. 1st, Sec.5.Tous les citoyens sont egalement admissible aux emplois publics. Les peuples ne connaissent d'autres motifs de preference, dans elections, que les vertus et les talents." Virtue in French is virtue in English while talent in French must be translated as being both talent and skill. (SR.)] [Footnote 3326: Madame de Remusat, passim .-- Roederer, III., 538 (January 1809). |