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Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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This is Samuel Smiles's biography of Jacques Jasmin, the Gascon barber who became a celebrated poet in his native Occitan and used his earnings for charitable causes. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century French literary figures and in Smiles's studies of self-made lives.
Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought.
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Portrait: via Wikipedia (see source).
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