Note 475 — BOOK II[446]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Pierre Simon Ballanche (1778-1847) started life as a printer at Lyons, where he published the second and third editions of the Génie du Christianisme. He began to devote himself to literature in 1813, wrote several notable works of Christian philosophy, and became elected a member of the French Academy in 1844.—T.