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What do the saint, the angel, the musician and the sandalwood refer to in Mallarmé's poem Sainte?

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Which French author or critic claimed that Racine and La Fontaine could not be understood by foreigners?

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How did Maupassant's contemporaries respond to his play Musotte?

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How did Maupassant's contemporaries respond to his play Une répétition?

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2 Related Poems by Rimbaud and Verlaine

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Why didn't Mercédès marry Edmond Dantès at the end in Count of Monte Cristo?

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"The Dearest Charms in France" - French story about soldiers, a lottery, and a famous prostitute

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What are the discrepancies between Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island?

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What was bernanosian about Camus's call to sacrifice in the resistance newspaper Combat?

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Did Alphonse Daudet exchange anti-Semitic correspondence with Richard Wagner?

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What is the view on climate by Mme de Staël that Vircondelet is referring to?

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Where did Camus call Sartre's theory of commitment an illusion?

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Was de Staël's On Literature Considered in Its Relations with Social Institutions influenced by late-18th-century German romantics?

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Have they ever published normal-sized Tintin volumes?

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