French Achievement in Literature

achievement actually artist attempt attitude audience authors Balzac Bayle bien Bossuet c'est called century classical comedy comic Corneille criticism death described Dictionary discussion drama effect English enjoy epigram essay example experience expression fact famous feel Flaubert force France French give grand happened human ideas imaginative impressive interest kind known language less letters literary literature living master means Michelet mind Molière Montaigne nature never notes novel passionate past perfect perhaps picture play pleasure poet poetry present Proust qu'il question Racine reader realism reason Saint-Simon Sainte-Beuve satire seems sense single social society stage story success suggest taken things thought tout tragedy tragic Voltaire whole writing written wrote