Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

German-born French-language Author

"The blind fanaticism of one foolish honest man may cause more evil than the united efforts of twenty rogues."

"If the French delirium is not properly repressed, it may be more or less fatal to the heart of Europe for the pestilential air must inevitably ravage and destroy everything it approaches. "