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Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Seventeenth and Later Centuries: Literature
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In sixteenth-century France, the position of Latin was prejudiced ever since the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (1539) had prescribed the use of French instead of Latin i…

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De Smet, Ingrid A. R., “Neo-Latin Literature—France: The Seventeenth and Later Centuries: Literature”, in: Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, General Editor Craig Kallendorf. Consulted online on 01 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004271296_enlo_B9789004271029_0073>
First published online: 2014
First print edition: ISBN:9789004265721



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