Volume 39, Number 12 · June 25, 1992
A Double Life
By P.N. Furbank
Chamfort
by Claude Arnaud, translated by Deke Dusinberre, foreword by Joseph Epstein
University of Chicago Press, 340 pp., $27.50
In 1795, the year following the Terror, the critic Pierre-Louis Ginguené published in four volumes the Works of his late friend and mentor Nicolas Chamfort, including in them some hundreds of 'Maxims, Characters, and Anecdotes.' In his prefatory memoir he explained their origin: Chamfort, he said, had been
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