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LXXII. A Source for Balzac's Determinism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

G. M. Fess*
Affiliation:
University of Missouri

Extract

In any explanation of the sources for the doctrine of physical determinism, as expressed in modern French literature, the book of Jean-Philibert Dessaignes (1762–1832), Etudes de l'homme moral, fondées sur les rapports de ses facultés avec son organisation, deserves a place. This is because its author was the teacher of Honoré de Balzac at the Collège de Vendôme, and because Balzac later became one of the chief creators of the doctrine in question.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , December 1935 , pp. 1186 - 1190
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1935

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