A few years ago I was on a tram reading one of these alphabet books on philosophy, made especially for the students like myself who didn't pay attention in clas

A few years ago I was on a tram reading one of these alphabet books on philosophy, made especially for the students like myself who didn't pay attention in class and needed to learn the main concepts and authors quickly before the test. A homeless person sat in front of me, and seeing me reading that book, suggested me a book by a French philosopher named Émile Bréhier [1]. The book in question was Histoire de la Philosophie, translated in English, and covers all the way from the Pre-Socratics to the modern philosophy at the time of the author (circa 1930 IIRC). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Br%C3%A9hier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Br%C3%A9hier