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... Bayle and Courtilz . Mme d'Aulnoy . Relation du Voyage d'Espagne 164 165 166 167 Histoire d'Hypolite , Comte de Duglas . Mme de La Force Mme de Murat . Mme Ferrand 168 169 2. " Extraordinary " Voyages Their general character . Accounts ...
... Bayle and Courtilz . Mme d'Aulnoy . Relation du Voyage d'Espagne 164 165 166 167 Histoire d'Hypolite , Comte de Duglas . Mme de La Force Mme de Murat . Mme Ferrand 168 169 2. " Extraordinary " Voyages Their general character . Accounts ...
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... Bayle and literature . Ill - health . Avis aux réfugiés Was Bayle the author ? Dismissal from his professorship Dictionnaire historique et critique Its merits and defects Bayle as a historian . His religious and philosophical opinions ...
... Bayle and literature . Ill - health . Avis aux réfugiés Was Bayle the author ? Dismissal from his professorship Dictionnaire historique et critique Its merits and defects Bayle as a historian . His religious and philosophical opinions ...
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... Bayle 431 Fontenelle 432 Influence of books of travel 433 Extraordinary Voyages . 434 The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns 435 Decline of creative literature 436 Survey of our period 438 Historical study 439 Memoirs . 440 Reason ...
... Bayle 431 Fontenelle 432 Influence of books of travel 433 Extraordinary Voyages . 434 The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns 435 Decline of creative literature 436 Survey of our period 438 Historical study 439 Memoirs . 440 Reason ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
II | 4 |
The fermiers Economic and financial distress | 7 |
Projet dune Dime royale | 15 |
Daily life of Louis XIV | 19 |
The apartments of the queen and the royal family | 24 |
Amusements | 37 |
CHAPTER III | 45 |
45 | 245 |
Fénelons Fables | 252 |
17 | 257 |
His descriptive style | 259 |
Fénelon and Mme Guyon | 266 |
Visit of Bossuets secretary | 272 |
18 | 273 |
Lettre sur les occupations de lAcadémie | 278 |
La Bruyères character Publication of Les Caractères | 55 |
Revolutionary note Sympathy with the poor | 62 |
Condition of pulpit oratory in Paris | 67 |
Apology for the Christian Faith | 68 |
Influence on the eighteenth century | 74 |
The formation of the ComédieFrançaise | 76 |
Le Mercure galant Ésope à la Cour | 89 |
Conduct of the play | 98 |
Dancourt | 104 |
Traitants | 106 |
Samuel Bernard Turcaret | 112 |
Lesage and the Théâtre de la Foire | 118 |
His life | 124 |
Decline of lyrical poetry | 139 |
Le genre marotique | 145 |
La Fare and his poetry | 151 |
Cafés Rousseau and the Café Laurent | 154 |
CHAPTER VI | 160 |
His Memoirs | 162 |
Bayle and Courtilz Mme dAulnoy | 166 |
ŵ t w | 172 |
SaintSimons Memoirs His sources of information | 177 |
Voyage et Avantures de François Leguat | 178 |
Contes du temps passé | 184 |
Pétis de La Croix and Les Mille et Un Jours | 190 |
Mémoires de Gramont | 194 |
CHAPTER VII | 200 |
10 | 203 |
43 | 206 |
14 | 209 |
Correspondence with her brother | 212 |
With the Princesse des Ursins | 218 |
Mme de Maintenon considered as a letterwriter | 224 |
15 | 225 |
Mme de Maintenons work at SaintCyr | 232 |
Its success and influence | 238 |
16 | 241 |
Sermon Sur le Bonheur des Justes | 281 |
To Mme de Montbéron | 285 |
19 | 289 |
To the Chevalier Destouches | 291 |
Funeral orations | 298 |
20 | 305 |
The Petit Carême | 311 |
CHAPTER X | 317 |
21 | 321 |
The great age of Classicism | 323 |
22 | 337 |
First and second dialogues | 338 |
Review of the Quarrel | 346 |
Reaction from the more extreme views of the moderns | 352 |
23 | 353 |
His importance in the history of French thought | 359 |
Critique générale de lHistoire de Calvinisme | 366 |
24 | 369 |
Nouvelles de la République des Lettres | 372 |
Dismissal from his professorship | 379 |
25 | 385 |
His appeal to Faith How far sincere? | 391 |
His limitations His love of tolerance | 393 |
8b | 397 |
Dialogues des Morts | 399 |
Histoire des Oracles and De lOrigine des Fables | 409 |
His scientific studies The Académie des Sciences | 416 |
27 | 417 |
Fontenelles position and character | 422 |
His Projet de Paix and Discours sur la Polysynodie | 428 |
28 | 433 |
Extraordinary Voyages | 434 |
Memoirs | 440 |
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Common terms and phrases
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