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    18th-century French literature is French literature written between 1715, the year of the death of King Louis XIV of France, and 1798, the year of the...
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  • Literature of the 18th century refers to world literature produced during the years 1700–1799. European literature of the 18th century refers to literature...
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    17th-century French literature was written throughout the Grand Siècle of France, spanning the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de' Medici...
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  • 20th-century French literature is literature written in French from 1900 to 1999. For literature made after 1999, see the article Contemporary French literature...
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    The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of...
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    19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy...
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  • programs of the Ancien Régime, French literature came to dominate European letters in the 17th century. In the 18th century, French became the literary lingua...
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    (1600–1720) Enlightenment (1680–1789) Modern German literature 18th- and 19th-century German literature Empfindsamkeit / Sensibility (1750s–1770s) Sturm...
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    rubric of "History and politicks" in the early 18th century, including pamphlets, memoirs, travel literature, political analysis, serious histories, romances...
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    empires French Renaissance literature French literature of the 17th century French literature of the 18th century French Renaissance French Baroque and...
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  • creation of Renaissance literature, while the 17th century was influenced by both Baroque and Jacobean forms. The 18th century progressed into a period...
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  • tradition found in Edmund Spenser. The late 17th, early 18th century (1689–1750) in English literature is known as the Augustan Age. Writers at this time "greatly...
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    Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (category 18th-century French literature)
    française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official...
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  • Austen". The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of...
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  • 1240 BC, but other versions of the book probably date from about the 18th century BC. 2600 BC: Sumerian texts from Abu Salabikh, including the Instructions...
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    French literature is, for the purpose of this article, Medieval literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle French)...
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    from the French House of Bourbon, initiating a period of French Enlightenment influence in Spain and the Spanish Empire. In the 18th Century, the Spanish...
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    Bibliothèque bleue (category 18th-century French literature)
    Bibliothèque bleue ("blue library" in French) is a type of ephemera and popular literature published in Early Modern France (between c. 1602 and c. 1830), comparable...
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    David Diop (novelist) (category 21st-century French male writers)
    24 February 1966) is a French novelist and academic, who specializes in 18th-century French and Francophone African literature. His research, at the University...
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    Paris in the 18th century was the second-largest city in Europe, after London, with a population of about 600,000 people. The century saw the construction...
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  • of literature of the early modern period (16th, 17th and partly 18th century literature), or early modern literature, succeeds Medieval literature, and...
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  • at the Vienna peace conference, gaining extensive territory. 18th-century German literature Kingdom of Prussia German dualism Austrian Empire Sheehan, James...
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  • literature Early Modern literature 16th century in literature 1700 in literature 18th century in literature list of years in literature Prickett, Katy (7 August...
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  • Years' War was a significant influence on Canadian literature in the 18th and 19th centuries as French Canada was transferred to the British. Popular novels...
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  • Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped...
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    Romanticism was relatively late in developing in French literature, more so than in the visual arts. The 18th-century precursor to Romanticism, the cult of sensibility...
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    The 18th century was a period of rapid growth for London, reflecting an increasing national population, the early stirrings of the Industrial Revolution...
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    intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Scholars regard the publishing of William Wordsworth's and Samuel Coleridge's...
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    Armour in the 18th century was minimalist and restricted almost entirely to cavalry, primarily to cuirassiers and, to a lesser degree, carabiniers and...
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    Romanticism was relatively late in developing in French literature, more so than in the visual arts. The 18th-century precursor to Romanticism, the cult of sensibility...
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