[228]. I have seen things of his; but have somehow missed his Œuvres, 10 vols., Paris, 1828.
[229]. Andrieux deserves a note, perhaps, as having occupied a place of strength—the chair of French Literature in the Collége de France—during the critical time 1814-1833, and as having defended the Capitol valiantly against the invaders. But his valiancy was greater than his vaillance; and instead of criticising him it is nobler to salute him, with M. de Jouy and some others, as respectably mistaken.
[230]. 9 vols., Paris, 1811-1824. Ginguené died in 1816, and the book, published in part posthumously from his MSS., was completed by another hand.
[231]. It may be found subjoined to the Pantheon Littéraire edition of La Harpe vol. iii., Paris, 1840. In his Œuvres, 5 vols. (Paris, 1826), and Œuvres Posthumes, 3 vols. (Paris, 1828-30), there is not much else of importance.
[232]. Chap. iii., op. cit.
[233]. Chap. vi.
[234]. 4 vols., Paris, 1817. The lectures had been delivered in 1811-14. I have had to rely on my reading of the British Museum copy, the only one which I have ever seen in a catalogue, though rather high-priced, having been sold before I could get it, and my advertisements for another (it is a book worth having) not being successful. Some accounts (e.g., that of Vapereau) are quite unfair to it.
[235]. Mélanges, 6 vols., Paris, 1828-1830.
[236]. I must find room, if only in a note, for the unfortunate Auger, who succeeded Suard as universal provider of éloges and Introductions in the classic sense, who served as victim to one of Daudet’s most ignoble transcripts of reality in L’Immortel, and whose ton sec et rogue Sainte-Beuve has somewhere despatched and impaled for ever in one of his really immortal phrases.
[237]. Some will no doubt expect that a third, Guizot, should be joined to them. He did much reviewing in his youth (as did his first wife, Pauline de Meulan), and his much later companion volumes on Corneille and Shakespeare are more than respectable. But he was perhaps even[even] less of a critic “in his heart” than[than] Cousin.