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Excerpt from Les Heros De Roman: Dialogue De Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux; Edited With Introduction and Notes
No separate edition Of Boileau's Dialogue, Le: Hire: dc Roman, has ever been published to my knowledge, and it is accessible to American students only in the author's com plete works or in selections for the use of French schools. In neither case has it been edited with completeness as regards its history and contents. I have endeavored to repair this want as well as I could, and to make the amus ing Dialogue an introduction to the study of French society and fiction in the seventeenth century. The lovers of Moliere will find much to interest them in this little volume, which may serve to some extent as a commentary on the Friday: ridicules.
In the hope of interesting students in Boileau the bio graphical sketch has been made as complete as space allowed, and many entertaining illustrations have been printed in the notes. As the Dialogue is so brief I have been very free with such material, which may be used as additional text for reading. I trust no apology is needed for the length with which the romances and satires of the seventeenth century have been treated. The former play an important part in the English literature of the following century, and I have attempted to point out in the notes this French in?uence in England.
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