Constantin François, comte de Volney

(1757-1820)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820 LBT ID: CoVolne1820 VIAF ID: 41847810 LOC ID: n81037343	B/BAP: 1757-02-03 DIED: 1820-04-25
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Oriental traveler, historian and member of the Académie française. He wrote Les Ruines, ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires (1791).
REFERENCES TO Constantin François, comte de Volney: William Godwin to Thomas Holcroft, 31 December 1799 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 20 March 1802 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Owenson to Thomas Longman, 10 December 1809 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir James Mackintosh to John Whishaw, 13 August 1811 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 3: ¶ 22 ¶ 23 ¶ n2-n2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Expulsion Found 1: ¶ 19 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXVII C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 1: ¶ 32 Ch. XII. 1799 Ch. V. 1802-1803 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40 Found 1: ¶ n2-n2