Dec 19, 2009
It has often been said that the most poetic works of eighteenth century France were written in prose—works such as François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon’s Télémaque (1699; The Adventures of Telemachus, 1720), Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761; Eloisa: Or, A Series of Original Letters, 1761), and especially Les Rêveries d’un promeneur solitaire (1782; The Reveries of a Solitary Walker,...
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