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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. [1]

49 relations: Académie française, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Antoine Arnauld, Antoine Furetière, Ars Poetica (Horace), Blaise Pascal, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Charles Cotin, Charles Perrault, Cloister, College of Sorbonne, Critic, Crosne, Essonne, Despréaux, Edmund Burke, Epictetus, Ferdinand Brunetière, François de Malherbe, French people, Georges de Scudéry, Gilles Boileau, Gustave Lanson, Horace, Jean Chapelain, Jean de La Chapelle, Jean Racine, John Dryden, Juvenal, Law, Louis XIV of France, Madeleine de Scudéry, Molière, Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy, Notre-Dame de Paris, On the Sublime, Philippe Quinault, Poet, Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, Rémy Lejeune, René Descartes, Revue des deux Mondes, Sainte-Chapelle, Sir William Soame, 1st Baronet, Society of Jesus, The Rape of the Lock, Theology, University of Paris, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.

Académie française

The Académie française is the pre-eminent French council for matters pertaining to the French language.

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet.

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An Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744).

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Antoine Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld (6 February 16128 August 1694) was a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician.

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Antoine Furetière

Antoine Furetière (28 December 161914 May 1688), was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer.

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Ars Poetica (Horace)

Ars Poetica, or "The Art of Poetry," is a poem written by Horace c. 19 BC, in which he advises poets on the art of writing poetry and drama.

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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian.

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (23 December 1804, in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 13 October 1869, in Paris) was a literary critic of French literature.

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Charles Cotin

Charles Cotin or Abbé Cotin (1604 – December 1681) was a French abbé, philosopher and poet.

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Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française.

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Cloister

A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth.

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College of Sorbonne

The College of Sorbonne (Collège de Sorbonne) was a theological college of the University of Paris, founded in 1253 by Robert de Sorbon (1201–1274), after whom it was named.

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Critic

A critic is a professional who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food.

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Crosne, Essonne

Crosne is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France and a suburb of Paris.

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Despréaux

Despréaux is a French surname.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.

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Epictetus

Epictetus (Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; 55 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher.

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Ferdinand Brunetière

Ferdinand Brunetière (19 July 1849 – 9 December 1906) was a French writer and critic.

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François de Malherbe

François de Malherbe (1555 – October 16, 1628) was a French poet, critic, and translator.

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French people

The French (Français) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France.

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Georges de Scudéry

Georges de Scudéry (22 August 1601 – 14 May 1667), the elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry, was a French novelist, dramatist and poet.

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Gilles Boileau

Gilles Boileau (22 October 1631, Paris – 18 March 1669), the elder brother of the more famous Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, was a French translator and member of the Académie française.

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Gustave Lanson

Gustave Lanson (5 August 1857 – 15 December 1934) was a French historian and literary critic.

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).

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Jean Chapelain

Jean Chapelain (4 December 1595 – 22 February 1674) was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française.

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Jean de La Chapelle

Jean de La Chapelle (24 October 1651 – 29 May 1723) was a French writer and dramatist.

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Jean Racine

Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 163921 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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Juvenal

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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Law

Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.

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Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Madeleine de Scudéry

Madeleine de Scudéry (15 November 1607 – 2 June 1701), often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.

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Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy

Neuilly-Auteuil-Passy refers to an area covering the westernmost part of the city of Paris and a neighboring suburban community.

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Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris (meaning "Our Lady of Paris"), also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral or simply Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France.

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On the Sublime

On the Sublime (Περì Ὕψους Perì Hýpsous) is a Roman-era Greek work of literary criticism dated to the 1st century AD.

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Philippe Quinault

Philippe Quinault (3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns

The quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (querelle des Anciens et des Modernes) began overtly as a literary and artistic debate that heated up in the early 17th century and shook the Académie française.

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Rémy Lejeune

Remy Ladoré is Rémy Lejeune’s artist name (7 October 1932 – 17 July 1996) he was a French draftsman, engraver and painter.

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René Descartes

René Descartes (Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: "Cartesian"; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.

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Revue des deux Mondes

The Revue des deux Mondes (Review of the Two Worlds) is a French language monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829.

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Sainte-Chapelle

The Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel) is a royal chapel in the Gothic style, within the medieval Palais de la Cité, the residence of the Kings of France until the 14th century, on the Île de la Cité in the River Seine in Paris, France.

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Sir William Soame, 1st Baronet

Sir William Soame, 1st Baronet (also Soames) (c.1645–1686) was an English translator and diplomat.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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The Rape of the Lock

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), metonymically known as the Sorbonne (one of its buildings), was a university in Paris, France, from around 1150 to 1793, and from 1806 to 1970.

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Villeneuve-Saint-Georges

Villeneuve-Saint-Georges is a small commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Boileau-Despréaux

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