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belles-lettres [bell-let-tra] Noun literary works, particularly essays and poetry [French]
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| A competent knowledge of history and of the belles-lettres is here absolutely necessary; and without this share of knowledge at least, to affect the character of an historian, is as vain as to endeavour at building a house without timber or mortar, or brick or stone. So are made the belles-lettres and the beaux-arts and their professors. |
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