Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire: that is MUHAMMAD. As regards all the standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask IS THERE ANY MAN GREATER THAN HE?

In 1829 he was elected a member of the Académie française. He worked for the French embassy in Italy from 1825 to 1828. He takes the child from its mother’s arms and parts with him only at the grave.

maʁ'tin] ; 21 October 1790 – 28 February 1869) was a French writer poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic. la. də.