Author

Abel-François Villemain(1790–1870)

Abel-François Villemain is documented in Fuller’s journals (1840). One work is named, all in Journal 1840, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Journals
Documented
1840
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

In Fuller’s words

“p 18 Villemain. / Romaic Songs remember Old Greece as the Roman Hist y remembers Etruria._ / 55 Helvetius advises Montesquieu not to publish l'Esprit des Lois _ it was too tame, he said. / Page 97 / 276 Diderot. / An excellent chapter in Villemain on Rousseau / Preface 17th, 18th, 19th, p—”
Cours de littérature française [Course of French Literature] · Journal 1840 · 1840

When Fuller engaged with Abel-François Villemain

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Villemain in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1840—

Journal 1840

p96–p97
analyzed · readManuscript page
“p 18 Villemain. / Romaic Songs remember Old Greece as the Roman Hist y remembers Etruria._ / 55 Helvetius advises Montesquieu not to publish l'Esprit des Lois _ it was too tame, he said.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).