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Part II - The Eighteenth Century: Learning, Letters, Libertinage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

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The Cambridge History of the Novel in French , pp. 131 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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