querelle

The works of Christine of Pisa (c. 1365 – c. 1430) initiated a literary debate which came to be known as the querelle des femmes — the debate about women.

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As a theologian convinced of the unambiguousness of Christian concepts, he distrusted the poetical expressions of mystics because they were equivocal, as is shown by the unforgiving position he took toward Quietism -- a querelle in which, as we shall soon see, Mme de Maintenon was herself dangerously implicated.

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As a theologian convinced of the unambiguousness of Christian concepts, he distrusted the poetical expressions of mystics because they were equivocal, as is shown by the unforgiving position he took toward Quietism -- a querelle in which, as we shall soon see, Mme de Maintenon was herself dangerously implicated.

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On a donc mis sur le dos du président Ravalomanana, à qui on ne pardonne pas non plus l'utilisation de la langue maternelle dans l'enseignement primaire, ce qui est une querelle franco-française; Ce faisant, on se défausse de ses turpitudes sur quelqu'un qui, pour le moment, n'a pas rejoint la “France-Afrique”.

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J.A. Starck et la querelle du crypto-catholicisme en A.lemagne, 1785-1789.

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Gérard Defaux, in his Pantagruel et les sophistes (1973), announced that the study of Rabelais now has its 'querelle des anciens et des modernes.'

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The French aspect is treated by H. Rigault in Histoire de la querelle des modernes (Paris, 1856), which is supple - mented by A. Lombard, La Querelle des anciens et des modernes. l'abbé Dubos (Neuchâtel, 1908).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968

La querelle des anciens et des modernes at the end of the seventeenth century in France and its echo in England — where it is usually called the “Battle of the Books” — did much to define the idea of progress and demon - strate the emancipation of the moderns from the ancients.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968

Perrault, which caused the famous querelle in France, and to the Battle of the Books in England (1690-98).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

Quelque temps après que cette _volonté royale_ eût été _portée_, deux officiers qui avaient eu quelques _contestations_ ensemble demandèrent au _roi_ l'_autorisation_ de vider leur _querelle_ l'_épée_ à la main.

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