Excerpt from Chrestomathie Francaise, ou Choix de Morceaux Tires des Meilleurs Ecrivains Francais, Vol. 3: Ouvrage Destine a Servir d'Application Methodique Et Progressive a un Cours Regulier de Langue Francaise
Des etrangers l'avaient cree, des etrangers l'exploiterent. L'in vasion des Normands etait venue apporter a la nationalite francaise son dernier et peut-etre son plus precieux element Hardis con querants de la Neustrie et de la langue aussi bien que du pays, ils ne tarderent pas a la doter d'une litterature. Les premiers monuments de la langue francaise sont normands d'ori gine et normands de sujets. La poesie lyrique n'avait pu preser. Ver la langue provencale 2: au nord de la Loire, l'epopee, comme en Grece et comme en Italie 3, fournit a la langue nationale une large et solide base, Le tudesque n'avait pas survecu a Charle magne; le latin se retira dans les ecoles; le francais regna sans partage.
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Alexandre Vinet was born near Lausanne in Switzerland. Educated for the Protestant ministry, he was ordained in 1819, when already teacher of the French language and literature in the gymnasium at Basel; and throughout his life he was as much a critic as a theologian. His literary criticism brought him into contact with Augustin Sainte-Beuve, for whom he obtained an invitation to lecture at Lausanne, which led to his famous work on Port-Royal.
As a theologian Vinet gave a fresh impulse to Protestant theology, especially in French-speaking lands, but also in England and elsewhere. His philosophy relied strongly on conscience, defined as that by which man stands in direct personal relation with God as moral sovereign, and the seat of a moral individuality which nothing can rightly infringe.
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