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Dignified Retreat

Dignified Retreat

Robert A. Schneider

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A panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in seventeenth-century France, drawing on the writings of over 100 men and women of letters, 'the generation of 1630', to understand the rise and refinement of the French language and the development of the literary culture of French classicism.

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OL Work ID
OL21214644W

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French literature, history and criticism, 17th centuryLiterature and societyFrance, intellectual lifeFrench literatureHistory and criticismHistoryIntellectual life

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