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Dignified retreat : writers and intellectuals in the age of Richelieu / Robert A. Schneider.

By: Schneider, Robert Alan [author.]Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustration (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191865275 (ebook) :Subject(s): French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism | France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century | Literature and society -- France -- History -- 17th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198826323DDC classification: 840.9004 LOC classification: PQ245Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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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This edition originally published: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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