[Hardy-l] Hardy's "la politesse du coeur"

[Nathalie Ba]

Dear members,
 
 In one of his short stories, "Fellow-Townsmen" (Wessex Tales), Hardy's narrator speaks of la politesse du coeur  (the expression is in French and it is italicized). I looked for the original writer responsible for the expression. It is "Jean Jacques Barthelemy (1716-95), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, who published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece" in 1788 (I quote from wikipedia). Hardy must have read Barthelemy's book although I can find no reference to it in his literary notes, autobiography or even letters.
 
Can anyone be of some help?
 
Thank you a lot in advance!
 
Nathalie.  


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