Saint-Preux

Saint-Preux, was he himself possessed by an emotionalism which finally became a disease.

The Unity of Civilization Various

Saint-Preux writes that Julie had explained to him how she sought to surround her children with good influences without forcing any religious instruction on them: "As to the Catechism, they don't so much as know what it is."

The Task of Social Hygiene Havelock Ellis 1899

Julie and Saint-Preux became names to conjure with; their ill-starred amours were everywhere sighed and wept over by the tender-hearted fair; indeed, in composing this work, Rousseau may be said to have done for Switzerland what the author of the Waverly Novels did for Scotland, turning its mountains, lakes and islands, formerly regarded with aversion, into a fairyland peopled with creatures whose joys and sorrows appealed irresistibly to every breast.

The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

He belongs wholly to that latter portion which has been wished away; he is a respectable Deist -- than which it is essentially impossible, one would suppose, for orthodoxy and unorthodoxy alike to imagine anything more uninteresting; and his behaviour to Saint-Preux appears to me to be simply nauseous.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Of Bomston and Wolmar we shall speak presently; and there is so little of the Baron d'Étange that one really does not know whether he was or was not something more than the tyrannical husband and father, and the ill-mannered specimen of the lesser nobility, that it pleased Saint-Preux or Rousseau to represent him as being.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Saint-Preux, objectionable and almost loathsome as he may be sometimes, is a thoroughly human creature, and is undoubtedly what Rousseau meant him to be, for the very simple reason that he is

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

And a third parallel, between Saint-Preux and Bradley Headstone, need not be quite farcical.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

They went on hand in hand along the banks of the river, discoursing of their mutual fondness in the phrases of Julie and Saint-Preux; the good

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

He has, however, expressed in the "New Heloisa" quite another view, which is found in a letter from Julie to Saint-Preux, and is inserted principally, perhaps, to give the latter an opportunity to answer it.

The Eve of the French Revolution 1869

-- Cf. in the "Nouvelle Héloise," 2nd part, the letter of Saint-Preux on Paris.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860