Landmarks in French Literature

age of Louis artistic Balzac beauty Bossuet brilliant Bruyère Chansons Chansons de Geste character characteristic charm civilisation classical complete contemporaries Corneille critical detail Diderot dominating doubt drama eighteenth century elaborate Elizabethan England English exquisite extraordinary fact feeling Flaubert Fontaine French literature genius H. A. L. FISHER human ideals imagination immense important infinitely influence Jean de Meung language Les Misérables letters Lettres Provinciales literary literature of France LL.D Louis XIV master melancholy ment Middle Ages mind modern Molière Molière's Montaigne Montesquieu movement nature ness never noble Paris Parnassiens Pascal passion perfect Philosophes play poems poet poetical poetry political produced Prof profound prose qualities Rabelais Racine Racine's reader realism Renaissance rhetoric Romantic Rousseau Saint-Simon seems sense sentences Shakespeare soul spirit splendid splendour strange style subtle supreme things thought tion tradition tragedy triumph true truth verse Victor Hugo vision Voltaire Voltaire's whole words writers