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did not appear before the 19th century) has many explanations. Her natural abilities had been carefully trained. The marquise had a genuine kindness and a lack of prejudice that enabled her to entertain princes and princesses of the blood royal and literary men with the same grace, whilst among her
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itself, but at the numerous coteries which in the course of years had sprung up in imitation of it. The satire affected the originators as well as the imitators, the former more closely perhaps than they perceived. The
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780:Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier
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622:Grand Dictionnaire des Précieuses
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725:Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant
820:Collège Catherine de Vivonne
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591:LuĂs de GĂłngora y Argote
558:were later ridiculed by
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812:Marquise de Rambouillet
546:Charles de Sainte Maure
37:marquise de Rambouillet
927:G. Lenotre, pp. 24-25.
765:Jean Ogier de Gombauld
685:Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
674:La Grande Mademoiselle
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382:marquis de Rambouillet
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883:Tallemant des RĂ©aux
795:Madeleine de Scudéry
750:Claude de Malleville
745:François de Malherbe
735:Madame de La Fayette
607:HĂ´tel de Rambouillet
602:HĂ´tel de Rambouillet
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838:References
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567:Précieuses
555:Précieuses
480:salonnière
324:Literature
191:Classicism
186:Précieuses
893:Monmerqué
538:madrigals
508:Uranistes
446:literary
425:, future
407:Tuileries
247:Novelists
242:Essayists
211:Symbolism
178:Movements
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