Word: marmontel
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Almost Great. "There was an ar dor in Boucher's imagination, but not much veracity and still less elevation," wrote a stuffy diarist named Marmontel. "His encounters with the Graces had never had a respectable setting." It is not far from that to the later outraged philippics of Diderot, who treated Boucher's hedonism as a moral menace - "simperings, affectation, nothing but beauty spots, rouge, gewgaws...
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