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and encouraging the development of the language on national lines by emphasizing its most idiomatic elements. Balzac has thus the credit of executing in French prose a reform parallel to
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when de Viau's troupe visited AngoulĂŞme, and fled from home with the troupe. The two traveled together with the troupe for some time, but when the troupe arrived at
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was printed in the next year. His letters, though empty and affected in matter, show a real mastery of style, introducing a new clearness and precision into French
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528:(in French)
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165:Essayists
134:Symbolism
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55:History
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180:Poets
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