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Boileau-Despréaux
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noun
Nicolas 1636–1711, French critic and poet.
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He himself sometimes signed Despréaux and sometimes Boileau-Despréaux.
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Boileau-Despréaux, Nicholas, 57, 58, 59.
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She shut them up; she forgot them; she sneered at them whenever they were remembered; and she appointed as her attorneys in the court of Parnassus Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux and François Arouet de Voltaire!
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