Boileau-Despréaux
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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!
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
He himself sometimes signed Despréaux and sometimes Boileau-Despréaux.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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