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211740 in literature — The year 1740 in literature involved some significant events and new books.Events*John Cleland returns to Britain from government service in India. * Accession of Frederick the Great in Prussia. * Beginning of the War of the Austrian… …
221669 in literature — The year 1669 in literature involved some significant events.Events* Samuel Pepys stops keeping his diary on May 31. * The final section of Parthenissa , the prose romance by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, is published. Earlier portions of the… …
231643 in literature — The year 1643 in literature involved some significant events.Events*Having had his philosophy condemned by the University of Utrecht, René Descartes begins his long correspondence with Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia. *The medieval Icelandic… …
241573 in literature — Events* New books*George Gascoigne A Hundred Sundry Flowers Bound Up in One Small Poesy... (the first collected edition of Gascoigne s verse and drama)New drama*Anonymous New Custom (published) *George Gascoigne ** Jocasta ** Supposes ** The… …
25Élie Catherine Fréron — (1719 ndash; March 10, 1776), was a French critic and controversialist whose career focused on countering the influence of the philosophes of the French Enlightenment, partly thorough his vehicle, the Année littéraire . [Jean Balcou, Fréron… …
26Deipnosophistae — Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and Latin The Deipnosophistae (deipnon, dinner , and sophistai, professors ; original Greek title Δειπνοσοφισταί, Deipnosophistai, English Deipnosophists)… …
27Louis Moréri — Louis Moréri, frontispiece, etching by Gerard Edelinck after a drawing by De Troyes, 17th. c. Louis Moréri (March 25, 1643 – July 10, 1680) was a French encyclopaedist. His encyclopaedia, Le grand Dictionaire historique, ou le mélange curieux de… …
28List of members of the Académie française — This is a list of members of the Académie française (French Academy) by seat number. The primary professions of the academicians are noted. The dates shown indicate the terms of the members, who generally serve for life. Some, however, were… …
29St. Brendan's Island — Situated somewhere west of Europe, St. Brendan’s Isle is a phantom island often regarded as myth, since, unless it is the so called Eighth Canary Island known since time immemorial to the Spanish and Portuguese authorities as San Borondón, only a …
30Anatole de Monzie — (22 November 1876 ndash; 11 January 1947) was a French administrator, encyclopaedist ( Encyclopédie française ), political figure and scholar. His father was a tax collector in Bazas (Gironde, near Bordeaux) where Anatole a name he disliked from… …
