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The harlots were the Muses of belles-lettres during the Renaissance.— Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
Her books were confined to religious works and belles-lettres. [— Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
If Geneva has been the fireside of learning and of belles-lettres, it has not been less the home of the fine arts.— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
So are made the belles-lettres and the beaux-arts and their professors.— Walden
Science has not made so much progress as belles-lettres and history, though Laval— Canada

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