(Please not the exequatur is a French ordnance by which
the courts gives a decision by a third party or an umpire executory
force. SR.)
[44] "Statut sur l'administration, l'ensignement et la police de
l'?cole normale, " March 30, 1810, title II, articles 20-23.
[45] Taine entered in L'Ecole Normale in October 1848, first in his
year, having written an essay in philosophy (in Latin) with the title:
Si animus cum corpore extinguitur, quid sit Deus? Quid homo? Quid
societas? Quid philosophia? (If the soul dies with the body what
happens to God? Man? Society? Philosophy?) And an essay in French
imagining that he was Voltaire writing to his English friend Cedeville
pretending to give his impressions on England. When he had arrived on
30 October 1848 Taine wrote to Corn?lis de Witt: "Here I am in the
convent and prisoner for three years." (SR.)
[46] I note, however, that the ?cole Normale Superior produced Taine,
and it seemed to have had the same effect upon him as by boarding
school and its similar regime upon me, namely of making me informed
and rebellious.
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