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| | CHARLES VICTOR DE BONSTETTEN - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES VICTOR DE BONSTETTEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | BONSTETTEN, CHARLES VICTOR DE (1745-1832), Swiss writer, an excellent type of a liberal patrician, more French than Swiss, and a good representative of the Gallicized Bern of the 18th century. |
 | | It was during this period that he published his most celebrated work, LHomme du midi et lhomme du nord (1824), a study of the influence of climate on different nations, the north being exalted at the expense of the south. |
 | | Among his other works are the Recherches sur la nature et les lois de limagination (1807), and the Etudes de lhomme, ou Recherches sur les facult~s de penser el de sentir (1821), but he was better as an observer than. |
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