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French Literature - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | The other, one of the most remarkable developments of sportive literature which the world has seen, produced the second indigenous literary growth of which France can boast, namely, the fabliaux, and the almost more remarkable work which is an immense conglomerate' of fabliaux, the great beast-epic of the Roman de Renart. |
 | | Side by side with these two forms of literature, the epics and romances of the higher classes, and the fabliau, which, at least in its original, represented rather the feelings of the lower, there grew up a third kind, consisting of purely lyrical poetry. |
 | | The novelty is in the application of prose to such a purpose, and in the crispness, the fluency and the elegance of the prose used. |
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