Recollections of My Youth - Ernest Renan

Recollections of My Youth

By Ernest Renan

  • Release Date: 1892-01-01
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Description

A leading French scholar tells of his extraordinary life in this 1883 memoir. Born to a family of fishermen, Renan was educated at the ecclesiastical seminary in his home town; developed a questioning mind and a passion for philosophy, Catholicism, and mathematics; helped define the modern notion of nationhood; and published his controversial Life of Jesus.

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