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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 75 — I. OF WORKS OF THE MIND.

Henri Van Laun translation

Some commentators on La Bruyère think that the words “vulgar tongue (jargon) and barbarisms” refer to Molière having put peasants on the stage, and letting them speak their dialect. See § 52.

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