Caro

Caro, ELME MARIE, a French philosopher, was born at Poitiers, March 4, 1826. After studies at the École Normale of Paris, and at Angers and Douai, he became in 1857 a lecturer at the École Normale, ten years later professor at the Sorbonne. In 1876 he was elected to the French Academy. He died 13th July 1887. His Wednesday lectures at the Sorbonne were exceedingly popular, and were never too difficult for the fashionable ladies who thronged to hear them. Pailleron made 'le philosophe des dames' the butt of his clever raillery in his well-known comedy Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie. Caro's chief works are Le Mysticisme au XVIII. Siècle (1852-54), L'Idée de Dieu et ses nouveaux Critiques (1864), Le Matérialisme et la Science (1868), Le Pessimisme au XIX. Siècle (1878), La Philosophie de Goethe (2d ed. 1880), George Sand in 'Les Grands Écrivains Français,' and Mélanges et Portraits (1888).