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Three French Moralists and the Gallantry of France · Edmund Gosse — chapter 17 of 18 · ~172 words · public domain

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Shakespeare, quoted, 6, 30

Singlin, Antoine, 22

Societe des Gens de Lettres, 138

Spectator, the, 88, 89

Spinoza, 33

Steele, Sir Richard, 89

Stephen, Sir Leslie, 34

Stevenson, R.L., 78, 101, 165

Suard, 99, 121

Sully, 129

Tailly-sur-Meuse, 143, 148

Tallemont des Reaux, 22

Temple, Sir William, 118, 126

Theophrastus, 69-71, 88

Thiange, Mme de, 46, 47

Torquet, M. Charles, 165

Turin, 102

Valincourt, 64

Vauban, Sebastien de, 84 n.

Vauvenargues, Marquis de, 97-132; birth and parentage, 99-101; described as "Clazomene," 121; serves in the Bohemian campaign, 98, 107, 109, 112, in garrison at Arras, 113; in garrison at Metz, 106, 113, in Paris, 120, with Villars in Lombardy, 102; his "Eloge" on De Seyres, 109, his "Discours sur la Gloire," 109, his "Introduction a la Connaissance de l'Esprit humain," 124, his "Reflexions sur divers Sujets," 104, 117, 121, 127

Verdun, 144

Vernulius, 28

Verteuil, 19, 20, 48

Vigneul de Marville, 60, 61 n.

Villars, Marshal de, 102, 129

Violand, Camille, 151, 155-160

Virton, Battle of, 144, 157

Vivonne, Andree de, 10

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