Eight centuries of French literature, from the Chanson de Roland to SartreRobert Foster Bradley, Robert Bell Mitchell |
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... ideas were in the air , and Voltaire was fortunate enough to make himself their chief exponent . Voltaire had a long and very full life . Of bourgeois origin , he received a thor- ough classical education from the Jesuits and a more ...
... ideas were in the air , and Voltaire was fortunate enough to make himself their chief exponent . Voltaire had a long and very full life . Of bourgeois origin , he received a thor- ough classical education from the Jesuits and a more ...
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... ideas . With him the Encyclopédie , instead of being a mere impartial summing up of all knowledge , as the title might indicate , became a great instrument in the hands of the Philosophe party in their warfare against ignorance and ...
... ideas . With him the Encyclopédie , instead of being a mere impartial summing up of all knowledge , as the title might indicate , became a great instrument in the hands of the Philosophe party in their warfare against ignorance and ...
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... ideas . His pen moreover was always at the service of his friends , and much of his literary production is incorporated in the writings of his contemporaries . Diderot was richly gifted intellectually . His friend Grimm called him " the ...
... ideas . His pen moreover was always at the service of his friends , and much of his literary production is incorporated in the writings of his contemporaries . Diderot was richly gifted intellectually . His friend Grimm called him " the ...
Contents
La Chanson de Roland | 3 |
LA LITTÉRATURE BOURGEOISE | 12 |
LA POÉSIE LYRIQUE | 21 |
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