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1 The engineering and l' work of Schopenhauer were studied more d' once in France, at the time where pessimism, replaced aujourd'hui, quite unfavourably d' elsewhere, by the ferocious theories and arhitraires of Nietzsche and his school, by the cult of brute force and the theory of will to power, at the time where the great metaphysician of the quadruple root of sufficient reason was fashionable in the literary worldintellectual and even in society to the contentions of dilettantism. Among these works of criticism or d 'Scholarship, we can mention any d' first the few placements d' together really worthy of Schopenhauer that were dedicated to him by the masters of our French pliilosophique literature. p.2