La Bruyère
Americannoun
noun
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“China is an industrial hub for the world,” Emily de La Bruyère, a co-founder of Horizon Advisory, said at the hearing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
“Chinese strategic discourse on the Olympics underlines the stakes,” the report, written by FDD fellows Emily de La Bruyère and Nathan Picarsic, states.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
And “life at court,” the 17th-century moralist Jean de La Bruyère wrote, “is a serious, melancholy game.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2012
We dismiss La Bruyère with a single additional extract,—his celebrated parallel between Corneille and Racine:— Corneille subjects us to his characters and to his ideas; Racine accommodates himself to ours.
From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson
All is strange," says La Bruyère, "in the humor, morals, and manners of most men....
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
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