Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-13 | Page 8 | Inaugural Lecture of French Society

INAUGURAL LECTURE 1 OF FRENCH SOCIETY C urse Instituted at Harvard HUvard University University University sity to Draw Americans Draw m ricans and Fre French ch Together Joge er CAMBRIDGE CAl as Feb eb In his Inaugural th the Cercle Francais francais Fran- Fran Francais cais de Harvi Harvard riI M. M Hughes le Ie Roux spoke on Le Roman Roman est est II 11 une d dE de la 10 Franc Francais is In th the lecturers lecturer's conception the aim of ot these lectures is to a symbolical bridge from hearts t to American hearts and and from American n hearts to French he across ts ean He said it is obvious that If if on ond- ond judges French people by what is now termed the French novel France will appear In a false light M M. le Ie Roux rapidly reviewed the history history history his his- tory of ot the French ov n-ov novel l and then described described described de de- de- de scribed society as it developed at different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent periods his most Brilliant description description tion b being bing of the Bourgeois of Balzac I with I its ideal of commercial l hanor hon han honor or r which jc filled th the the- h first r t half of rf the n nine nine- t tenth century I M. M le Ie Roux en-d en n his his' lecture by referring referring referring refer refer- ring to Gen glen Lafayette Lafaye te