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Le Méchant

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  • Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
    In Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

    …were not especially successful, but Le Méchant (1747; “The Sorry Man”), a witty exposé of salon life, was highly praised for its pithy, polished dialogue. Admitted to the Académie Française in 1748, he caused a stir with his criticism of nonresident bishops (1754). In 1759 Gresset wrote Lettre sur la…

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