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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 235 — V. OF SOCIETY AND OF CONVERSATION.

Henri Van Laun translation

Hermagoras is, according to all commentators, Paul Perron, a learned Benedictine, and author of LʼAntiquité des temps rétablie, etc. The old English translations name, however, also Isaac Vossius (1618-1688), an able Dutch philologist, and a well-known French literary man, Urbain Chevreau (1613-1701).

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