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The Comical History of Francion; Satirically Exposing Folly and Vice in Variety of Humours and Adventures. in Two Volumes. Written in French by the ... and Adorn'd with Cuts. Volume 2 of 2

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT135748The Sieur de Parc = Charles Sorel.London: printed for M. Poulson and sold by J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, and 4 others in London], 1727. 2v., plates; 12

332 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1623

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Charles Sorel

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Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny (1582?-1674) est un romancier français du XVIIe siècle.

Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny (1582?-1674)was a French novelist from the 17th century.

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December 11, 2022
Pas fou hein très très long Francion est super chiant et vraiment détestable comme personnage. De plus la manière d'écrire fait qu'on comprend rien aux dialogues les quelques touches d'humour rajoutent un peu de bien a l'intrigue mais faut les comprendre
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November 16, 2007
hilarious. one of the original readers who went a littel wild. emma bovary with a sense of humor.
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