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In fact I started a new section on my website for essays- Belles-Lettres.
Essays - Couldn't Keep it To Myself Stephanie 2010
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Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen (Rouen, Normandy, France) (French only) www. soc-savantes-academie.com
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Le deuxième centenaire de l'Académie nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon 1700 – 1900.
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Nikolaus von Beguelin, "Remarques et Observations sur les Couleurs Prismatiques et sur l'Analyse Physique, et Métaphysique, de la Sensation des Couleurs en Général," Histoire de l'Académie royale des Sciences et des Belles-Lettres de Berlin 1764 (Berlin, 1766), 306.
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The establishment of this Academy of Inscriptions, now called that of the Belles-Lettres, may, indeed, be dated from the year
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Academy of the Belles-Lettres was put on the same footing; both submitted to the immediate control of the secretary of state, and to the revolting distinction of honoraries, pensionaries, and pupils.
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I prize some half-dozen volumes of Belles-Lettres, part of a "universal library", so called, which fell to my lot in the past.
Archive 2006-10-01 jmnlman 2006
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In 1719, he became a member of the Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and, as early as 1722, was elevated to the capacity of Perpetual Secretary.
18th Century French Aesthetics Morizot, Jacques 2006
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I prize some half-dozen volumes of Belles-Lettres, part of a "universal library", so called, which fell to my lot in the past.
THE DIME MUSEUM BY DON ROSE jmnlman 2006
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And Smoking Joe (you know, writing in front of Higher Grounds), Doyen des Belles-Lettres and All-Around Laureate Emeritus. litagain
Downtown Charlottesville's Leading Public Intellectual at cvillenews.com 2002
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