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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Pierre François Tissot (1768–1854)

Tissot, Pierre François (tē-sō’). A French historical and miscellaneous writer; born at Versailles, 1768; died in 1854. Among his works are: ‘Reminiscences of Prairial 1st to 3d’ (1799), an interesting page of French history; ‘Virgil’s Bucolics,’ in French verse (1800); ‘The Three Irish Conspirators; or, Emmet’s Shade’ (1804); ‘The Wars of the Revolution to 1815’ (1820); ‘Virgil Compared with Ancient and Modern Poets’ (4 vols., 1825–30); ‘Complete History of the French Revolution’ (6 vols., 1833–36).