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Félicité de Lamennais is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1845–1847). One work is named, most often in Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . X., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“it is my present plan to return to Paris next winter and that then I shall probably be willing to engage for sketches of George Sand, La Mennais, and, if you wish, them Beranger and Le Roux. I have some ideas which please me in relation to all four.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“has given birth in our own time to the poet and to the orator of Catholicism, to Chateaubriand and to La Mannais”
Fuller, Margaret. "Michelet’s History of France." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 May 1845. · 20 May 1845
“Many there delight to know you as a great apostle of the ideas which are to be our life, if Heaven intends us a great and permanent life.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
“it is my present plan to return to Paris next winter and that then I shall probably be willing to engage for sketches of George Sand, La Mennais, and, if you wish, them Beranger and Le Roux.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
“I went to call on La Mennais, to whom I had a letter. I found him in a little study; his secretary was writing in a larger room through which I passed.”
“and wherever there is the true Crusade—for the spirit, not the tomb of Christ—shall be felt an echo of the “ Que tes armes soirut bénis jeune soldat ” of La Mennais.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . X." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 March 1847.
“La Mennais and his coadjutors published in La Reforme an honorable and manly Protest, which the public rushed to devour the moment it was out of the press—and no wonder!”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XII." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 May 1847. · 12 May 1847
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I suppose if I were to read Lamennais, or L'Erminier, I should know what they all want or intend.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.