A decree of the new power gives the préfets the right to arrest, in their respective departments, whomsoever they please; and the préfets, in their turn, send blank warrants of arrest, which are literally lettres de cachet, to the sobs-préfets under their orders.

Professor C.L. Reason, a veteran teacher of New York City, was then so well educated that in 1844 he was called to the professorship of Belles-Lettres and the French Language in New York Central College.

Although Montesquieu, in his Lettres Persanes, shows himself enthusiastic for the federal republics of Switzerland and the Netherlands, his opinions are different after his return from England, and in his Esprit des Lois he praises the English form of government as the ideal of civil liberty.

[Footnote 3: Nicolai: Library of Belles Lettres, from 1757; Letters on the Most Recent German Literature, from 1759; Universal German Library, from 1765; New Universal German Library, 1793-1805.]

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 159.

"Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 114.

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A tentative bibliography of the belles-lettres of the Republics of Central America.

Lettres a Sophie Volland de Diderot. T.1-2. Introduction des variantes et des notes par Andre Babelon.

Lettres a Sophie Volland de Diderot.

Lettres a Sophie Volland de Diderot.

SOCIETE DES GENS DE LETTRES.

Avex des lettres inedites de Marguerite Audoux, Octave Mirbeau et Alain Fournier.

Societe des Gens de Lettres de France (E); 7Nov77; R678085. R678086.

Dupont, E.: Lettres sur le Congo.

A good-sized specimen of these huge unwieldly scows was fifty-five feet long, twelve broad, and six deep, drawing three feet of water; [Footnote: Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain, St. John de Creve Coeur, Paris, 1787.

[Footnote A: See correspondence in Reliquiae Bodleianae, London, 1703.] 'Baggage-books' was the contemptuous expression elsewhere employed to describe this 'light infantry' of literatureBelles Lettres, as it is now more politely designated.

I had read a few chapters of the "Assommoir," as it appeared in La République des Lettres; I had cried, "ridiculous, abominable," only because it is characteristic of me to instantly form an opinion and assume at once a violent attitude.

EVERETT, ALEXANDER HILL, an American diplomatist and author, born at Boston; was U.S. ambassador at The Hague and Madrid, and commissioner to China; wrote on a variety of subjects, including both politics and belles-lettres, and a collection of critical and miscellaneous essays (1792-1847).

Despite the elucidation of this point, it is noteworthy that Prof. Paul Gaffarel both in his admirable French translation of the Opus Epistolarum (1897) and in his Lettres de Pierre Martyr d'Anghiera (1885) should still cite the chronology of Mazzuchelli and Tiraboschi.]

Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire des hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres, Paris, 1745.

Lettres de Pierre Martyr Anghiera.

J'y vis rassemblés Montesquieu, Fontenelle, Mairan, Marivaux, le jeune Helvétius, Astruc, je ne sais qui encore, tous gens de lettres ou savants, et au milieu d'eux une femme d'un esprit et d'un sens profonds, mais qui, enveloppée dans son extérieur de bonhomie et de simplicité, avait plutôt l'air de la ménagère que de la maîtresse de la maison: c'était là Mme.

CHARLES COLLÉ: Journal et mémoires sur les hommes de lettres, les ouvrages dramatiques et les événements les plus mémorables du règne de Louis XV (1748-1772), (édition Honoré Bonhomme).