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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
the art, and Saint Rene Taillandier, 1817-1879; distinguished in literary and historical studies, one of his papers being entitled, La Promenade du Peyrou et la Cathedrale de Montpellier; member of the French Academy; professor at Montpellier, 1843-1863, and from 1863 at the Sorboune. He served the government in the department of education from 1870 to 1872. then delivering at the university a course of lectures on French literature in the eighteenth century, including one or more on Beaumarchais, a course afterwards repeated at the Sorbonne. Sumner attended the lectures of Taillandier and other professors in the Salles des Lettres, occupying a privileged seat at the front. For descriptions of Sumner's life at Montpellier see his letters, Jan. 24 and 25, 1859, printed in Longfellow's Life, vol. III. pp. 55-59. M. Abauzit, who met Sumner at Montpellier, writes: Mr. Sumner read all the memoirs and correspondence relating to the eighteenth century, particularly the letters of D