Precieuses

Regnier's class at the Conservatoire-Jocquelet, who has made an enormous success in an act from the "Precieuses," at the last quarter's examination -- he says so himself, without any useless modesty -- Jocquelet, who will certainly have the first comedy prize at the next examination, and will make his debut with out delay at the Comedie Francaise!

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Precieuses, in spite of their absurdities, did a very good work in setting themselves in opposition to it.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Precieuses, in spite of their absurdities, did a very good work in setting themselves in opposition to it.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The only reply he got was a general look of contempt; he consoled himself by meditating, 'Les Precieuses Ridicules'.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

England, the Precieuses of France and the Illuminati of the eighteenth century, as well as Les Merveilleux and Les Encroyables.

Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank

That romanticism which made a drama of the situation in L'Ecole des Femmes, and another one out of that in the Precieuses ridicules, excels in taking tragically situations that belong to comedy and in turning them into the sublime.

George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings 1910

I saw “Les Precieuses Ridicules” finely done, and I said to myself then, as I have often said since: “Old school ” new school?

The Story of My Life Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928 1908

Je croyais que vous me traitiez tout a fait en ami, car c'etait en ami que j'avais accepte de vous offrir quelques indications sur les Precieuses ... et voila que vous m'envoyez un enorme cadeau ... imprudence d'abord parce que j'ai tous les beaux Moliere qui existent et ensuite parce qu'il ne fallait pas envoyer ombre de quoi que ce soit a votre ami Coq.

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

Precieuses ridicules together for a charity matinee.

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

Ninon never hesitated to declaim against the fictitious beauty that pretended to inculcate virtue and morality while secretly engaged in the most corrupt practices, but Moliere came with his Precieuses Ridicules and pulverized the enemies of human nature.

Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903