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What's in a Name? On the grounds that parents had no right to give their children absurd names, Judge Tobal of the Buenos Aires Criminal Court fined two parents who named theirs Zoroaster and Jupiter, let off two who named theirs Floreal and Oreste...
Belgian literature had its beginning in 1880, and this is also the period of the minor reviews, among them "La Jeune Belgique," "L'Art Moderne," "Floreal," and "Le Coq Rouge." In the work of the revival of French in Belgium, the prose writers also play a part,--besides Charles Lemonnier there were many excellent writers, who in short tales and novels told stories of Flemish life. At the outset of the symbolistic movement, the Belgian poets separated into two parties--the conservatives, who accepted the theories of the Parnassieus; and the ultra-symbolists. The dramas of Maeterlinck are the works...
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