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Nicholas Boileau (1636-1711) French Literary critic and poet. "Boileau should be most gratefully remembered as the first systematic critic of France, the first to make criticism an art." (The New International Encyclopaedia Vol. III, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 462-463.)
C. A.Sainte-Beuve, Translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Part 2 (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904) 248.
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