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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 246 — V. OF SOCIETY AND OF CONVERSATION.

Henri Van Laun translation

Fontenelle had written for his uncle Thos. Corneille (1625-1709) certain parts of two operas, Psyché (1678) and Bellérophon (1679); for Beauval, in prose, an eulogy on Perrault (1688), and for a certain Mdlle. Bernard, part of a tragedy of Brutus (1691).

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