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"Extrait du Mémoire sur la Peinture à l'Encaustique, et sur la Peinture à la Cire, par M. le comte de Caylus, de l'Académie des Belles-lettres: et par M. Majault, Docteur de la Faculté de Médecine en l'Université de Paris, et Ancien Médecin des Armées du Roi," Journal œconomique (October 1755): 69 – 96.
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Belles-lettres, of which he was a highly distinguished member.
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Academy of Belles-lettres, that he was a poet and an atheist.
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Indes orientales, extraits d'un journal inédit, Bibliothèque universelle des Sciences, Belles-lettres, et Arts, 16 (1821):
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Bibliothèque universelle des Sciences, Belles-lettres, et Arts, 13 (1820):
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Belles-lettres as brilliant as The Lover's Discourse 1977?
Auugh. mariness 2004
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Monday following, in the afternoon, I was in one of the class-rooms listening to the lecturer on Belles-lettres and Rhetoric.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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Belles-lettres and fiction -- the only department in which woman has accomplished much -- give ten names as compared with seventy-two men.
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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Inscriptions and Belles-lettres in 1837 and soon after was made a member of the committee entrusted with the task of continuing the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Belles-lettres deals considerably with this question, for it can itself determine the popular attitude to the unmarried state.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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