Continuum, Volume 1AMS Press, 1989 - French literature |
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... Voltaire coined the phrase , le siècle de Louis XIV . Reproducing in that work the myth and mysteries of cyclical periodization , with the notable addition of a long and laborious phase of maturation , 3 Voltaire gave expression to one ...
... Voltaire coined the phrase , le siècle de Louis XIV . Reproducing in that work the myth and mysteries of cyclical periodization , with the notable addition of a long and laborious phase of maturation , 3 Voltaire gave expression to one ...
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... Voltaire's implicit criticism of the reign of Louis XV , his vision of le siècle de Louis XIV did not challenge the ... Voltaire , the royal historiographer as of 1745 , sustained the aspirations of the post- regency monarchy to power ...
... Voltaire's implicit criticism of the reign of Louis XV , his vision of le siècle de Louis XIV did not challenge the ... Voltaire , the royal historiographer as of 1745 , sustained the aspirations of the post- regency monarchy to power ...
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... Voltaire in his Commentaires sur Corneille . Stintingly commenting on his eponymous subject along lines derogating Cornelian excess in the light of Racinian concision - the Voltairean Corneille reads like Shakespeare , whose " unruly ...
... Voltaire in his Commentaires sur Corneille . Stintingly commenting on his eponymous subject along lines derogating Cornelian excess in the light of Racinian concision - the Voltairean Corneille reads like Shakespeare , whose " unruly ...
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