Pellisson

How is it that Pellisson was the first who adopted the true Ciceronian style, in his memoir for the superintendent Fouquet?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The French have become diligent students of their own early poetry, which they long neglected; the study makes many of them dissatisfied with their so-called classical poetry, the court-tragedy of the seventeenth century, a poetry which Pellisson long ago reproached with its want of the true poetic stamp, with its _politesse stérile et rampante_, but which nevertheless has reigned in France as absolutely as if it had been the perfection of classical poetry indeed.

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Pellisson, another of the founders and the historian of the same learned body, is its chronicler.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Pellisson and Dr. Pecquet were sent to the Bastille; Guénégaud lost half his fortune; the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

From the Bastille, Pellisson addressed to the King three papers in defence of his chief: "masterpieces of prose, worthy of Cicero,"

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While he is yet speaking, twenty jets of water spring into the air, -- a huge rock in the foreground changes into a shell, -- the shell opens, -- forth steps a Naiad (pretty Mademoiselle Béjart, a well-known actress, -- too well known for Moliere's domestic comfort) and declaims verses written by Pellisson for the occasion.

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Pellisson takes notes and leaves us a multitude of madrigals, sonnets, chansons and letters of varied merit.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Pellisson, famous for ugliness and for wit, the _Acanthe_ of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, the beloved of Sappho

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Protestants by the famous Edict, and Pellisson, a convert from

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The French have become diligent students of their own early poetry, which they long neglected; the study makes many of them dissatisfied with their so-called classical poetry, the court-tragedy of the seventeenth century, a poetry which Pellisson long ago reproached with its want of the true poetic stamp, with its politesse stérile et rampante, but which nevertheless has reigned in France as absolutely as if it had been the perfection of classical poetry indeed.

The Study of Poetry 1909