Boileau

/ bwalo /

noun

BoileauNicolas16361711MFrenchWRITING: poetWRITING: critic Nicolas (nikɔlɑ). full name Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux . 1636–1711, French poet and critic; author of satires, epistles, and L'Art poétique (1674), in which he laid down the basic principles of French classical literature

This assembly, to which Boileau and Racine afterwards belonged, soon became an academy of itself.

This canto never would have converted Boileau from his disapproval of the "merveilleux chrétien."

In a word, Boileau ridicules Perrault much more than he justifies Homer.

Molire was naturally of a reserved and taciturn temper; insomuch that his friend Boileau used to call him the Contemplateur.

His lines "baisent la terre" in a way that would have inexpressibly shocked Boileau and the Parisian salons.

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