Portraits of the seventeenth century, historic and literary
By: by C.A. Sainte-Beuve; translated by Katharine P. Wormeley ...
Contributors: Wormeley, Katharine Prescott.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 1904
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Subjects: French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Authors, French; France -- Biography
Notes: "Taken from the 'Causeries du lundi,' the 'Portraits de femmes,' and the 'Portraits littéraires.'"--Translator's note.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Cardinal de Richelieu. Duc de Rohan. Cardinal Mazarin. Duc de La Rochefoucauld. Duchesse de Longueville. Cardinal de Retz. Mademoiselle de l'Enclos. Tallemant des Réaux and Bussy-Rabutin. Abbé de Rancé. La Grande Mademoiselle. Comtesse de La Fayette. Duchesse d'Orléans. Louis XIV. Duchesse de La Vallière.; title: v. 2. History of the French academy. Corneille. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Molière. La Fontaine. Pascal. Madame de Sévigné. Bossuet. Boileau. Racine. Madame du Caylus. Fénelon. Comte Antoine Hamilton. The princesse of Ursins.