Gontier Col And The French Pre Renaissance

Excerpt from Gontier Col. and the French Pre-Renaissance This modesty of Col's perhaps explains why a man should come down to posterity bracketed with a passing incident, when some of his real services to his country and to the development of the times had been overlooked. This does not mean that Col was a great man. As has often been said, however, the tendencies of the times fre quently show themselves more clearly in the minor personages of an epoch than in the geniuses; accordingly in the career of this Human ist and diplomat we may be able to bring to light some of the im portant characteristics and tendencies Of the pre-renaissance in France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.