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Sainte-Beuve

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Sainte-Beuve  (st-bv), Charles Augustin 1804-1869.
French literary critic and historian noted for his biographical approach to literature. His works include Port-Royal (1840-1859), a cultural history of 17th-century France.
Sainte-Beuve (French) [sɛ̃tbœv]
n
(Biographies / Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin (1804-1869) M, French, WRITING: critic, WRITING: essayist) Charles Augustin (ʃarl ogystɛ̃). 1804-69, French critic, best known for his collections of essays Port Royal (1840-59) and Les Causeries du Lundi (1851-62)


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In Les Courbezon, the French Vicar of Wakefield, as Sainte-Beuve declared, with this imposing background, the Church and the world, as they shape themselves in the Cevennes, the priest and the peasant, occupy about an equal share of interest.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
She read a great deal, and almost always French books, in fresh yellow paper; not the lighter forms of that literature, but a volume of Sainte-Beuve, of Renan or at the most, in the way of dissipation, of Alfred de Musset.
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