CHAPTER V

COSMOPOLITAN CULTURE AND ITS LITERARY FRUITS

Trollope’s _Examiner_ articles--Opposing religious experiences of boyhood and early manhood--Moulding influences of his Irish life--The cosmopolitan in the making--Interest in France and the French--_La Vendée_--Trollope’s relation to other English writers on the French Revolution--The moving spirits of the Vendean insurrection--Peasant royalist enthusiasm--Opening of the campaign--The Chouans of fact and fiction--A republican portrait-gallery--Barère--Santerre--Westerman--Robespierre--Eleanor Duplay 81