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Paul Hazard

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April 30, 1878

Died

April 13, 1944

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Paul Hazard was an eminent French historian of ideas and a pioneering scholar of comparative literature. After teaching at the University of Lyon and the Sorbonne, he was appointed to the chair of comparative literature at the Collège de France in 1925 and in 1940 was elected to the French Academy. From 1932 on Hazard also taught at regular intervals at Columbia University, and he was in New York when the Nazis occupied France in 1941. He immediately returned to France to assume the rectorship of the University of Paris but was rejected for the position by the Nazis. Hazard’s reputation rests on two major works of intellectual history: The Crisis of the European Mind, from 1935, and its sequel, European Thought in the Eighteenth Century: Fr ...more

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	The Crisis of the European Mind by Paul Hazard, Anthony Grafton (Introduction), J. Lewis May (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1935 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	European Thought in the Eighteenth Century 3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1946 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Books, Children and Men 3.80 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1932 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The European Mind 1680-1715 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1974 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La pensée européenne au XVIIIe siècle: De Montesquieu à Lessing liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	de la Liberté de l'Art Dramatique (Litterature) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Révolution Française Et les Lettres Italiennes, 1789-1815 (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Against the nationalistic prejudices of the various peoples, the idea of universal egalitarianism could make no headway.”
― Paul Hazard, The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680-1715

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“It is certain that”
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“All their dates and periods are a hopeless tangle. They are very hazy even about the correct dates of their national festivals.”
― Paul Hazard, The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715

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