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boileau-despreaux

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Boi⋅leau-Des⋅pré⋅aux

  [bwa-loh-de-prey-oh]
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–noun
Ni⋅co⋅las  [nee-kaw-lah] , 1636–1711, French critic and poet.
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Boi·leau-Des·pré·aux   (bwä-lō'dě-prā-ō')   
French critic and poet whose Art of Poetry (1674), a treatise in verse, is a summation of the rules and conventions in French literature.
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