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J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand
Jean Jules Jusserand (1855–1932) was a French diplomat, historian, and writer best known for his role as the French ambassador to the United States during the early 20th century. He played a key part in strengthening Franco-American relations, especially during World War I. Jusserand was also a respected scholar of English literature, writing works such as "A Literary History of the English People" and "With Americans of Past and Present Days." In 1917, he won the first Pulitzer Prize for History for his book "With Americans of Past and Present Days."
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INTRODUCTION. The London publishers annually issue statistics of the works that have appeared in England during the year. Sometimes sermons and books on theology reach the highest figures; England is still the England of the Bible, the country that at the time of the Reformation produced three hundred and twenty-six editions of the Scriptures in less than a century, and whose religious literature is so...
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BRITANNIA. I. The people that now occupies England was formed, like the French people, by the fusion of several superimposed races. In both countries the same races met and mingled at about the same period, but in different proportions and under dissimilar social conditions. Hence the striking resemblances and sharply defined contrasts that exist in the genius of the two nations. Hence also the...
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