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Le Sage

American  
[luh sazh] / lə ˈsaʒ /
Or Lesage

noun

  1. Alain René 1668–1747, French novelist and dramatist.


Le Sage British  
/ lə saʒ /

noun

  1. Alain-René (alɛ̃rəne). 1668–1747, French novelist and dramatist, author of the picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–35)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Le Sage, the founder of Envisage Equity, a private equity firm in Southern California, said he did not give any specific instructions to the group on how to spend his donation.

From Reuters Nov. 22, 2015

California donor Jeff Le Sage pledged money to the group on Friday, but declined to say how much he was giving.

From Reuters Nov. 22, 2015

French authors of the time from Le Sage downwards usually managed these with remarkable skill. 18th-Century Fiction.—With prose fiction the case was altogether different.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

"Gil Blas," by Le Sage, is one of the most famous and widely read books in the world.

From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Parsons, Frank

Victor Hugo in his Shakespeare, when he calls the lists of poets, mentions prose writers like Diderot, Rousseau, Balzac, Chateaubriand, George Sand, Le Sage and Cervantes.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

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