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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
- Lytton Strachey
#Monarchy
#Peace
#Religion
#Stability
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
- Lytton Strachey
#Atmosphere
#Dark
#Middle
#Something
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
- Lytton Strachey
#Life
#Political Power
#Political
#Power
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
- Lytton Strachey
#Age
#Fact
#Majority
#Tone
#Work
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
- Lytton Strachey
#Flower
#Government
#Maturity
#Nation
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
- Lytton Strachey
#Civilization
#Language
#New
#Same
#Time
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
- Lytton Strachey
#Action
#Civilization
#Peace
#Place
#War
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
- Lytton Strachey
#Every
#Few
#French
#Straight
#Vocabulary
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
- Lytton Strachey
#Direction
#Genius
#Simplicity
#Unity
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
- Lytton Strachey
#Always
#Englishmen
#Loved
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
- Lytton Strachey
#Better
#Biography
#Discretion
#Part
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
- Lytton Strachey
#Evil
#Existence
#Far
#Good
#Literature
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
- Lytton Strachey
#Amateur
#He
#Literature
#Own
#Rare
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
- Lytton Strachey
#Age
#History
#Know
#Never
#Will
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
- Lytton Strachey
#Art
#First
#Ignorance
#Perfection
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