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What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings
- Author: Ernest Renan
- Year: 2018
- Pages: 378
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Ernest Renan was one of the leading lights of the Parisian intellectual scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. A philologist, historian, and biblical scholar, he was a prominent voice of French liberalism and secularism. Today most familiar in the English-speaking world for his 1882 lecture What Is a Nation?
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