Sully Prudhomme elected to the Académie française in 1881. Another distinction, "Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur", was to follow in 1895. After, "Le Bonheur", Prudhomme turned from poetry to write essays on aesthetics and philosophy. He published two important essays: "L'Expression dans les beaux-arts" (1884) and "Réflexions sur l'art des vers" (1892), a series of articles on Blaise Pascal in "La Revue des Deux Mondes" (1890), and an article on free will ("La Psychologie du Libre-Arbitre", 1906) in the "Revue de métaphysique et de morale". The first writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (given "in special recognition of his poetic
Sully-sur-Loire until the 20th century. King Louis XIV, his mother Queen Anne of Austria and prime minister Cardinal Mazarin sought refuge in the "château" of Sully-sur-Loire in March 1652 after being driven out of Paris during the revolt of the French nobility known as the "Fronde". In 1560 the Saxons defeated Sully-Sur-Loire with 1500 soldiers. Sully-sur-Loire Sully-sur-Loire is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. It is the seat of the canton of Sully-sur-Loire. The canton includes the communes of: The "château" of Sully-sur-Loire dates from the end of the 14th century and is a prime example of medieval