Men and women of the eighteenth century.
By: By Arsene Houssaye.
Publisher: Redfield; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1852
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: France -- Biography; France -- Court and courtiers
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Dufresny.  Fontenelle.  Marivaux.  Piron.  The Abbe Prevost.  Gentil-Bernard.  Florian.  Boufflers.  Rivarol.  Chevalier de la Clos.  Gretry.  Diderot.  Boucher.  Lantara.  Louis XV.  Mademoiselle de Camargo.  Mademoiselle Guimard, a goddess of the opera.  Sophie Arnould.  Marie-Antoinette.; title: v. 2. Crebillon the tragic.  Crebillon the gay.  La Motte, an innovator of the XVIIITH century.  Buffon.  Cardinal de Bernis.  Vade.  Dorat.  Abbe Trublet, one of the forty.  Dehle, a philosopher.  Watteau and Lancret.  The Vanloos.  Greuze.  Madame de Pompadour.  Three pages from the life of Dancourt.  Madame de la Popeliniere.  Mademoiselle Clairon.  A promenade in the Palais-Royal.