Jean de La Bruyère (UK: /ˌlæ bruːˈjɛər/, UK: /ˌlɑː bruːˈjɛər, ˌlɑː briːˈɛər/, French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la bʁɥijɛʁ]; 16 August 1645 – 11 May 1696) was a French...
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La Bruyère may refer to: La Bruyère, Belgium, a municipality La Bruyère, Haute-Saône, a commune in France Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696), French essayist...
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Bruyère (born 1992), Belgian politician Véronique Bruyère, Belgian computer scientist Bruyères La Bruyère (disambiguation) Bruguière Brugère This disambiguation...
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unfavourable description by Jean de La Bruyère, that La Fontaine was a special friend and ally of Benserade, La Bruyere's chief literary enemy. But after...
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (1665) Jean de La Bruyère, Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle (1688) Luc de Clapiers...
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (1665) Jean de La Bruyère, Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle (1688) Luc de Clapiers...
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Fontenelle and the Précieuses, though there are traces of it even in Jean de La Bruyère. It abuses metaphor somewhat, and delights to turn a metaphor in an...
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Pascal's Pensées and La Rochefoucauld's Maximes, as well as the work of Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers, Dante, Kant and La Fontaine. It even included...
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deathlike solitude." – Mary Shelley 100 11 "Fight, Flight or Freeze" August 4, 2022 (2022-08-04) N/A "Out of difficulties grow miracles." – Jean de La Bruyère...
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century. Then Ronsard was, except by a few men of taste, such as Jean de La Bruyère and Fénelon, forgotten when he was not sneered at. In this condition...
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Éric Rohmer (redirect from Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer)
thinks and feels. Rohmer cited the works of Blaise Pascal, Jean de La Bruyère, François de La Rochefoucauld and Stendhal as inspirations for the series...
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François Rabelais (redirect from Abbaye de Thélème)
Company. Retrieved 25 November 2018 – via newadvent.org. Jean de La Bruyère (2010). "Des ouvrages de l'esprit". Les Caractères. Paris: Éditions Garnier. p...
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Although frequently denigrated by authors of the period (such as Jean de La Bruyère), the periodical eventually became a financial success, and brought...
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Bruyère: Suivis des Caractères de Théophraste, 1844 – The Caractères of Jean de La Bruyère, followed by the "Characters" of Theophrastus. ADB: Schweighauser...
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biographical essay.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) La Bruyère, Jean de (1903). La Bruyère und Vauvenargues: selections from the Characters [and] Reflexions...
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Autobiography Mark Twain, "Learning the River" from Life on the Mississippi Jean de La Bruyère, "Characters" from A Book of Characters Thomas Carlyle, 'The Hero...
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locality in the 6th century. It was the birthplace of Jean Lurçat, in 1892. In World War II, Bruyères was liberated from German occupation by Japanese-American...
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(1943–2012) Ernst Laas (1837–1885)[b] Lucien Laberthonnière (1860–1932)[b] Jean de La Bruyère (1645–1696)[b] Jacques Lacan (1901–1981)[a][b][c][e] Jules Lachelier...
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aphorists Jean de La Bruyère and Prosper Mérimée, and in Aphorism 221 celebrates Voltaire. At the beginning of the second section, Nietzsche mentions La Rochefoucauld—named...
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French writers of his time, including Racine, Jean de La Fontaine, François Fénelon and Jean de La Bruyère. The Moderns (Modernes), represented by Perrault...
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by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson Chance by Joseph Conrad Characters by Jean de la Bruyère Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson The Charterhouse...
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after the plane, a narrator recites the passage from "Caractères" by Jean de La Bruyère, and the film ends. Le distrait (2:07) Récéption chez les Gastier...
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privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers (in French) (2 ed.)., vol. 26 La Bruyère, René...
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Louis-Sextius de Jarente de La Bruyère (Marseille, 30 September 1706 – Meung-sur-Loire, 29 January 1788) was a French prelate born in 1706. He was Bishop...
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Jean Pierre Joseph Bruguière, called Bruyère, (June 22, 1772 – June 5, 1813) was a French military officer. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars...
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by Adrienne Jelley-Bruyère alias Danièle Vindor - Edition Office de Publicité - 1929. Le Voyage d'Agrément by Adrienne Jelley-Bruyère alias Danièle Vindor...
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Racine, Jean de La Fontaine and Jean de La Bruyère (who is famous for a jibe against the gazette: "le Mercure... est immédiatement au dessous de rien" ["the...
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relatively new for French comedy, "M. Griffet" the fermier (tax farmer). Jean de La Bruyère had already targeted these tax contractors at his works. But Boursault's...
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the epigraph "Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir être seul" — a quote taken from The Characters of Man by Jean de La Bruyère. It translates to This great misfortune...
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Joseph Bruyere or Bruyère (born 5 October 1948 in Maastricht, Netherlands) is a former Belgian cyclist. Professional from 1970 to 1980, Joseph Bruyère, athlete...
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