The Mountain. From the French of Michelet. By the Translator of "The Bird"

Green boards with gilt titles and decor on spine and front board, page ridges gilt. With 54 illustrations from designs by Percival Skelton. "Jules Michelet (French: [ʒyl miʃ.lɛ]; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions. In his 1855 work, Histoire de France (History of France),[1] Jules Michelet was the first historian to use and define[2] the word Renaissance ('Re-birth' in French), as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a drastic break from the Middle Ages (which he loathed),[3] creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world. Historian François Furet wrote that his History of the French Revolution (1847) remains "the cornerstone of all revolutionary historiography and is also a literary monument".[4] His aphoristic style emphasized his anti-clerical republicanism."