Hotel De Rambouillet and the Precieuses

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LE are warned not to think of this great house as a sort of Academy, a mere club of pedants and bluestockings. It was not that. It was emphatically the gay world, life, society. Everything was there which the world enjoys, with perhaps a touch of ceremonial reserve hitherto unknown. There might be grave arguments over the use of prepositions, or the propriety of admitting a new word to the French language, but there wasalso music and dancing. In a house filled with young people, pleasure will be the order of many days. The party for pleasure at Hotel de Ram- bouillet was organized and headed by Vincent Voiture. Voiture was what the French call, with untranslatable felicity, un bel esprit; in England they would say a wit. His career shows how democratic Hotel de Rambouillet was, and how entirely amiable qualities atoned for the lack of a grandfather. Voiture was of humble birth, the son of a wine-merchant of Amiens, but his gifts carried him to a foremost place in the most cultivated society of his day. Men of highest rank treated him as an equal. He had abundance of animal spirits, and he also had tact, suppleness of intellect, humor, a knowledge of men and women. People admired his cleverness and marveled at his audacity. The Due d'Enghien once said: ' If Voiture were of our rank he would be unendurable.' When he grew old Voiture became peevish, and was tolerated just as if he had been a lord or a rich uncle. Cousin praises Voiture because he was ' the first example of a man of letters who lived among the great and still maintained his independence.' The praise would be justly bestowed if it were true that Voiture took the attitude of a professed man of letters. He did not. He trifled at literature. But he trifled with exceeding care, and his works live after him. He w...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458831477
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 1.75 mm
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458831477
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 59.02 gr


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