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Renan

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Renan (French) [ranɑ̃]
n
(Biographies / Renan, (Joseph) Ernest (1823-1892) M, French, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, RELIGION: theologian, HISTORY: historian) (Joseph) Ernest (ernest). 1823-92, French philosopher, theologian, and historian; best known for his Life of Jesus (1863), which discounted the supernatural aspects of the Gospels


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She read a great deal, and almost always French books, in fresh yellow paper; not the lighter forms of that literature, but a volume of Sainte-Beuve, of Renan or at the most, in the way of dissipation, of Alfred de Musset.
 
 
 
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