Dialogues of the Dead

Name: Dialogues of the Dead
Author: François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon

This book is in French.

Seventy-nine short dialogues between famous dead (ancient and modern), composed for the education of the Duke of Burgundy: ambition, glory, flattery, true and false virtue, judged in the face of death. Faguet’s edition (Nelson, 1917).

Source: Proofread transcription on fr.wikisource. The edition is the editor’s selection and order; Faguet’s notes, if any, are not kept.