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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 187
ard tendency; Moliere and La Fontaine producedon their contemporaries the effect that in our day thenaturalists have produced on the romanticists; but 1/6 THE PRINTED BOOK. this was not for long. Majesty recovered its rightswith Bossuet, Boileau, and the others. Sebastien Leclerc was one of the… … Fig. 77.—Tailpiece of Sebastien Leclerc for the Promoiade dcSt. Germain. of the seventeenth century who dreamed of the vignettein the midst of this invasion of pompous commonplace.Successor of Callot in manner, induced by the pub-lishers, he began this style with a romance of La SEBASTIEN LECLERC.…
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