The Ancient Regime

by Hippolyte Taine

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Genres: History, French Revolution, Ancient History

444 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1875

About the author

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French philosopher, critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism. Literary historicism as a critical movement has been said to originate with him.[1] Taine is particularly remembered for his three-pronged approach to the contextual study of a work of art, based on the aspects of what he called "race, milieu, and moment".

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Hippolyte Adolphe Taine était un historien, philosophe et critique littéraire français.