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The Protestant writer Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle published an annotated version of the book, Notes sur le siècle de Louis XIV, in 1753, adding many attacks against Voltaire. [ 7 ] In the early 19th century, the English writer Hannah More wrote that Voltaire had "decorated both the period and the king with so much that is great and ...
A 17th-century English Baroque school using extended conceit, often (though not always) about religion [18] [19] John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell: Cavalier Poets: 17th-century English Baroque royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson) [20] Richard Lovelace, William Davenant: Euphuism
The Book of Mormon: See Origin of the Book of Mormon: 1830: 115 [15] English: 13 Asterix: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: 1959–present: 115 [16] (not all volumes are available in all languages) French: 14 The Quran: See History of the Quran: 650 >114 [17] [18] Classical Arabic: 15 The Way to Happiness: L. Ron Hubbard: 1980: 114 [19] English ...
French Vernacular Books: Books Published in the French Language before 1601. Vol. 1– 2. Brill. ISBN 9789004156876. + Volumes 3-4 (2011): Books published in France before 1601 in Latin and Languages other than French; Vincent Giroud (2013). "France". In Michael F. Suarez; H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.). The Book: A Global History. Oxford University ...
Les Prophéties (The Prophecies) is a collection of prophecies by French physician Nostradamus, the first edition of which appeared in 1555 by the publishing house Macé Bonhomme. His most famous work is a collection of poems, quatrains , united in ten sets of verses ("Centuries") of 100 quatrains each.
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Up to roughly 1340, the Romance languages spoken in the Middle Ages in the northern half of what is today France are collectively known as "ancien français" ("Old French") or "langues d'oïl" (languages where one says "oïl" to mean "yes"); following the Germanic invasions of France in the fifth century, these Northern dialects had developed distinctly different phonetic and syntactical ...