Emile Littre, 1801-1881. (Great Minds).

Free Inquiry | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

This year France celebrates an important literary anniversary, the bicentennial of the birth of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), arguably France's greatest nineteenth-century writer. But as we salute the author of Les Miserables, we might well pause to honor the memory of an important contemporary of Hugo's, whose own bicentennial came and went quietly one year ago. The man in question, famous in his day for his courageous opposition to the Church and tireless defense of democracy, scientific method, and reason, was France's Noah Webster, Emile Littre.

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