Note 229 — Chapter IV · DIDEROT AND THE FRENCH TRANSITION.
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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.