Word: lucretius
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...Pensees de Pascal, the Oraisons Funebres of Bossuet, the works of Fenelon upon Eloquence, La Bruyere, the Fables de la Fontaine, the classical productions of Racine, Corneille, and Moliere, etc. At the same time they study, in Latin, Cicero's treatises on Rhetoric, Tacitus, Virgil, Horace, and extracts from Lucretius; in Greek, Thucydides, the orations of Demosthenes, Sophocles, and parts of Aristophanes. Besides, students are required to make literary analyses of the works I have cited, and to prepare French and Latin theses. So much for the study of letters...