Classic French Course in English
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Classic French Course in English is a book by William Cleaver Wilkinson. A list of other volumes by the same author names Preparatory Greek Course in English and Preparatory Latin Course in English. Two organized forces, the Hôtel de Rambouillet and the French Academy, worked together, though sometimes perhaps not in harmony, to produce the magnificent literary result that illustrated the time of Louis XIV. Corneille read aloud his masterpieces before they were represented on the stage, and Descartes philosophized, in the literary society called the Hôtel de Rambouillet.
The book says Horace Walpole aspired to do in English for his own time something like what Madame de Sévigné had done in French for hers. The text says Rousseau's books in general are now little read, but that there are in some of them passages that continue to live.
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