Discours sur le style

…1753, he delivered his celebrated Discours sur le style (“Discourse on Style”), containing the line, “Le style c’est l’homme même” (“The style is the man himself”). He was also treasurer to the Academy of Sciences. During the brief trips he made each year to Paris, he frequented the literary and…

…the man himself”) in his Discours sur le style (1753), and Arthur Schopenhauer’s definition of style as “the physiognomy of the mind” suggest that, no matter how calculatingly choices may be made, a writer’s style will bear the mark of his personality. An experienced writer is able to rely on…