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Boileau
/ bwalo /
noun
- BoileauNicolas16361711MFrenchWRITING: poetWRITING: critic Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). full name Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux . 1636–1711, French poet and critic; author of satires, epistles, and L'Art poétique (1674), in which he laid down the basic principles of French classical literature
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This assembly, to which Boileau and Racine afterwards belonged, soon became an academy of itself.
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This canto never would have converted Boileau from his disapproval of the "merveilleux chrétien."
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In a word, Boileau ridicules Perrault much more than he justifies Homer.
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Molire was naturally of a reserved and taciturn temper; insomuch that his friend Boileau used to call him the Contemplateur.
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His lines "baisent la terre" in a way that would have inexpressibly shocked Boileau and the Parisian salons.
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