Louis Sebastien, Le Nain de Tillemont (1637-98) compiled all the primary and secondary material he could find on Augustine of Hippo (354-430) for the 13th volume of his series of biographies; it was p
Mercier's Le Tableau de Paris , published from 1781 to 1788, is one of the forgotten treasures of French literature, offering a wealth of vivid portraits of Parisian life. Mercier was a pioneering ur
