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Nouveaux Dialogues des morts

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  • Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de
    In Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle

    …contributed to this, but the Nouveaux Dialogues des morts (1683, “New Dialogues of the Dead”; 2nd part, 1684) enjoyed a greater success and is more interesting to a modern reader. The Dialogues, conversations modelled on the dialogues of Lucian, between such figures as Socrates and Montaigne, Seneca and Scarron, served…

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