A History of French Literature
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Ed. 1662, surreptitious and incomplete; complete ed., 1868-1884.
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An excellent guide will be found in Victor Fournel's Le Théâtre au xvii. Siècle, La Comédie.
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Translated into English for the first time in full, 1897, by T. T. Allen.
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Or was this Rivarol's ironical jest?
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The twelfth part of Marianne is by Madam Riccoboni. Only five parts of the Paysan are by Marivaux.
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First authorised edition, 1762; surreptitiously printed, 1755.
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The Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet (1720-93) endeavoured to reconcile his sensationalism with a religious faith and a private interpretation of Christianity.
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This phrase had been used by Boisguillebert and by the Marquis d'Argenson before Gournay made it a power. On D'Argenson (1694-1757), whose Considérations sur le Gouvernement de la France were not published until 1764, see the study by Mr. Arthur Ogle (1893).
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Among writers who fostered the new feeling for external nature, Ramond (1755-1827), who derived his inspiration, partly scientific, partly imaginative, from the Swiss Alps and the Pyrenees, deserves special mention.
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In the first edition, Delphine dies by her own hand.
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See section VII, this chapter.
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The influence of the great actress Rachel helped to restore to favour the classical theatre of Racine and Corneille.
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It is one of Mérimée's merits that he awakened in France an interest in Russian literature.
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The History of Civilisation in France closes with the fourteenth century.