Note 268 — Chapter IX
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He does later seek this, and only loses her (if she can be called a loss) by his own folly. But his main objective is to conter (or as Furetière himself has it, débiter) la fleurette. It ought, perhaps, to be mentioned, as a possible counterweight or drawback, that the novelist breaks off to discuss the too great matter-of-factness of bourgeois girls and women. But he was to have great followers in this also.