The Précieuses (French: la préciosité, French pronunciation: [la pʁesjɔzite], i.e. "preciousness") was a 17th-century French literary style and movement...

Greene 2012, "Neo-Gongorism"; Baldick 2015, "Culteranismo". Baldick 2015, "Préciosité, la". Dalglish, Jack, ed. (1961). Eight Metaohysical Poets. Oxford: Heinemann...

works. She was at once admitted to the Hôtel de Rambouillet coterie of préciosité, and afterwards established a salon of her own under the title of the...

ladies who indulged in lively conversations, word games and, in a word, préciosité (preciousness). It was adapted into a lyric comedy and a film. Les Précieuses...

particularly in the well-attended literary salons. The French literary style préciosité, characterized by witty conversations, literary salons, and telling fairy...

called by a different name: culteranismo in Spain, Marinismo in Italy, and préciosité in France, for example. Periodic sentence Purple prose Huxley, Aldous...

wrote a manual on dancing as well as books criticizing the development of préciosité. He was also appointed historiographer of France in 1653. His name, more...

and Mlle de Scudéry, which held up a mirror of this microsociety". The préciosité refinements of the French language would find some codification in the...

written in verse. A satire on academic pretension, female education, and préciosité (French for preciousness), it was one of his most popular comedies and...

century, considered part of the French literary style and movement known as préciosité, sometimes known under the pseudonyms of Némésis and Nérésie. The date...

London: Greenwood Press. pp. 479–480. ISBN 0-313-28731-7. Baldick 2015, "Préciosité, la". Dalglish, Jack, ed. (1961). Eight Metaohysical Poets. Oxford: Heinemann...

is considered to be his masterpiece. His style is strongly tinged with préciosité and his chief surviving interest is as a glaring example of the evils...

have an enormous impact on French poetic and courtly language. Although préciosité was often mocked (especially in the late 1660s, when the phenomenon had...

fact, he was the representative of a Europe-wide movement which included préciosité in France, Euphuism in England and culteranismo in Spain. Marino's verse...

similarities with other European Baroque movements, such as Euphuism, préciosité and Culteranismo, Marinism is essentially an Italian literary phenomenon...

assessing Quinault's comedy work, Patricia Howard noted the influence of Préciosité, especially in the female roles: "For if in French theatre in the second...

collection of "fairy tales", Les Contes des Fées. The book is written in préciosité style, inspired by the witty conversational style of popular 17th century...

la poésie française archaïque (1952) Miroirs de l'Amour. Tragédie et Préciosité (1952) Histoire littéraire de la France médiévale (VIe-XIVe siècles)....

have an enormous impact on French poetic and courtly language. Although "préciosité" was often mocked (especially in the later 1660s when the phenomenon had...

camps. According to Joëlle Rollo-Koster, his tone and style approach préciosité, but Ullmann calls his language "frank and dignified" and praises his...

distinction from Renaissance poetry (see Euphuism, Culteranismo, Marinismo, Préciosité). During this period, there seems to be[according to whom?] an unprecedented...

gens de salons parisiens qui, tout au long de sa vie, brocardèrent sa « préciosité », ses « bibeloteries », son manque de souffle et, pour tout dire, ses...