Boileau-Despréaux

[ bwa-loh-de-prey-oh ]

noun

1. Ni·co·las [nee-kaw-, lah], 1636–1711, French critic and poet.

Example Sentences

He himself sometimes signed Despréaux and sometimes Boileau-Despréaux.

From Project Gutenberg

Boileau-Despréaux, Nicholas, 57, 58, 59.

From Project Gutenberg

She shut them up; she forgot them; she sneered at them whenever they were remembered; and she appointed as her attorneys in the court of Parnassus Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux and François Arouet de Voltaire!

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