Within the successive editions of Edmé Boursault's Letters of Respect, Gratitude and Love ( Lettres de respect, d ' obligation et d ' amour ) ( 1669 ), a group of letters written to a girl named Babet was expanded and became more and more distinct from the other letters, until it formed a small epistolary novel entitled Letters to Babet ( Lettres à Babet ).

In France, among other orders are the Légion d ' Honneur, the Ordre National du Mérite, the Ordre des Palmes académiques and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

The treatise was published after his liberation in 1782 under the title Les Lettres de cachet et des prisons d ' etat and was widely read throughout Europe.

* Honoré Mirabeau, Des Lettres de Cachet et des prisons d ' état ( Hamburg, 1782 ), written in the dungeon at Vincennes into which his father had thrown him by a lettre de cachet, one of the ablest and most eloquent of his works, which had an immense circulation and was translated into English in 1788.

* Stanislas, chevalier de Boufflers, Lettres d ' Afrique à Madame de Sabran, préface, notes et dossier de François Bessire, s. l., Babel, 1998, 453 pages ( coll.

He has received considerable critical praise in France, including for several films which were not well received in the United States, and he has been awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he became a recipient of the French Republic's Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2007 he was awarded the Légion d ' honneur medal.

* Lettres d ' un innocent ( Letters from an innocent man ) ( 1898 )

Von Sydow received the Royal Foundation of Sweden's Cultural Award in 1954, the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005 and the Légion d ' honneur in 2010.

* French Armand Delatte, Le Cycéon, breuvage rituel des mystères d ' Éleusis, Belles Lettres, Paris, 1955

* 1984: Lettres d ' Amérique ( Dido Renoir & Alexander Sesonske, eds.

The French Government made her a Chevalier ( later upgraded to Commandeur ) of the Légion d ' honneur and a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

* Grimoard, Philippe-Henri, comte d. Lettres et mémoires choisis parmi les papiers originaux du maréchal de Saxe,: et relatifs aux événements auxquels il a eu part, ou qui se sont passés depuis 1733 jusqu ' en 1750, notamment aux campagnes de Flandre de 1744 à 1748.

His Lettres galantes du chevalier d ' Her ..., published anonymously in 1685, was a collection of letters portraying worldly society of the time.

In 1712, many of the elaborate Chinese manufacturing secrets for porcelain were revealed throughout Europe by the French Jesuit father Francois Xavier d ' Entrecolles and soon published in the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses de Chine par des missionnaires jésuites.

* Lettres de d ' hivernage ( 1973 )

Marceau was made a commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an Officer of the Légion d ' honneur, and in 1978 he received the Médaille Vermeil de la Ville de Paris.

The Lettres d ' un bon jeune homme, written to the Figaro under the signature of " Valentin de Quevilly ", provoked more animosities.

There he discussed politics and theology at the salon of Madame de Staël, and began his career as a counter-revolutionary writer, with works such as Lettres d ' un royaliste savoisien (" Letters from a Savoyard Royalist ", 1793 ), Discours à Mme.

* Lettres d ' un royaliste savoisien à ses compatriotes ( 1793 )

Besides the letters, Noverre wrote Observations sur la construction d ' une nouvelle salle de l ' Opéra ( 1781 ); Lettres sur Garrick écrites a Voltaire ( 1801 ); and Lettre à un artiste sur les flies publiques ( 1801 ).

His Discours politiques ( 1847 – 1881 ) was published in 1882. his most important works, besides those already mentioned, are Lettres sur l ' Angleterre ( 1866 – 1867 ), Dix années de l ' Histoire de l ' Angleterre ( 1879 – 1881 ), and Questions d ' aujourd ' hui et de demain ( 1873 – 1884 ).

* Lettres contenant une aventure

* Lettres choisies de Mr Fléchier, avec une Relation des fanatiques du Vivarez et des réflexions sur les différens caractères des hommes ( 2 volumes, 1715 ).

In 1779 he was named the Bernese bailiff of Saanen or Gessenay ( here he wrote his Lettres pastorales sur une contrie de la Suisse, published in German in 1781 ), and in 1787 was transferred in a similar capacity to Nyon, from which post he had to retire after taking part ( 1791 ) in a festival to celebrate the destruction of the Bastille.

He published in succession, Le Scorpion ( 1887 ), Chonchette ( 1888 ), Mademoiselle Jaufre ( 1889 ), Cousine Laura ( 1890 ), La Confession d ' un amant ( 1891 ), Lettres de femmes ( 1892 ), L ' Automne d ' une femme ( 1893 ), and in 1894 he made a great sensation by an exaggerated and revolting study of the results of Parisian education and Parisian society on young girls, Les Demi-vierges, which was dramatized and produced with great success at the Gymnase on 21 May 1895.

* Françoise de Graffigny, author of Lettres d ' une Péruvienne

* Ulysse Chevalier, Lettres inédites de Hugues de Lionne précédées d ' une notice historique sur la famille de Lionne ( Valence, 1879 )

But it is in its numerous imitations – such as Lettres juives ( 1738 ) and Lettres chinoises ( 1739 ) of Boyer d ’ Argens, Lettres d ’ une Turque à Paris, écrites à sa sœur ( 1730 ) by Poullain de Saint-Foix ( published several times in conjunction with Lettres persanes ), and perhaps especially Françoise de Graffigny ’ s Lettres d ’ une Péruvienne ( 1747 ) – not to mention the letter-novels of Richardson – which, between 1721 and 1754, had in effect transformed Lettres persanes into an " epistolary novel.

: Lettres de Vincent van Gogh à Émile Bernard & Recueil des publications sur Vincent van Gogh faites depuis son déces par Émile Bernard, précédées d ' une preface nouvelle par le même auteur, Ambroise Vollard, éditeur, Paris, 1911, pp. 1 – 43

His chief works are Mémoirs historiques, politiques et littéraires sur le Royaume de Naples, translated into German, English and Italian, and embracing the History of Lower Italy from the earliest times until 1820 ; Histoire des Arts en Italie, the two volumes of which treat of music, the others of painting ; Voyages dans une Partie de la France, ou Lettres descriptives et historiques ( Paris, 1824 ).

Initially employed in commerce, Mulsant wrote writes Lettres à Julie sur l ' entomologie, suivies d ' une description méthodique de la plus grande partie des insectes de France, ornées de planches … ( Letters to Julie on entomology, followed by a methodical description of the greatest part of the insects of France with, decorated plates ...,) dedicated to his future wife, Julie Ronchivole.

The concerns of the nouvelle classique ( love, psychological analysis, moral dilemmas and social constraints ) are also apparent in the anonymous epistolary novel Lettres d ' une religieuse portugaise ( Letters of a Portuguese Nun ) ( 1668 ), attributed to Guilleragues, which were a sensation when they were published ( in part because of their perceived authenticity ).

Records of these meetings are given in Charles de Brosses ' Lettres sur l ' Italie and in the Propositiones Philosophicae, which her father had published in 1738.

Then in 1788 ( a year prior to the French Revolution ) she appeared as an author under her own name ( Sophie had been already published, but anonymously ) with some Lettres sur J. J. Rousseau, a fervid panegyric which demonstrated evident talent but little in the way of critical discernment.

trans., 1865 ) and her Lettres ( 1864, Eng.

In 1985 she was nominated as an officier of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Jack Lang because of her achievements in sculpture and in photography.

She was honoured with " La Medaille Vermeille de la Ville de Paris " and she was appointed an Officier de l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier de l ' Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and by her native country Romania.

Two volumes of Lettres published in 1809 displayed her as the victim of a passion of a rare intensity.

Lettres inédités de Mademoiselle de Lespinasse à Condorcet, à D ' Alembert, à Guibert, au comte de Crillon, edited by M. Charles Henry ( 1887 ), contains copies of the documents available for her biography.

Her works, with those of Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, were edited by Etienne and Jay ( Paris, 1825 ); her novels were reprinted, with introductory matter by Lescure, in 1885 ; and her correspondence in the Lettres de Mmes.

See her Lettres inédites, edited by A Geoffroy ( Paris, 1859 ), and her correspondence with Madame de Maintenon ( Paris, 1826 ).

During World War II, she supported and edited from Argentina in collaboration with her friend and translator Pelegrina Pastorino, the anti-Nazi magazine " Lettres Francaises " directed by Roger Caillois and in 1946 she was the only Argentinean who attended the Nuremberg Trials.

In 1994 France decorated her with the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

Recognized internationally for her unique work as a pioneering woman in film production and as a multi-talent in postwar Austrian arts and culture, von Dassanowsky is the only Austrian woman to receive the Women ’ s International Center ’ s prestigious Living Legacy Award, and has been honored with the UNESCO Mozart Medal, the Austrian Decoration of Merit, the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the Austrian Film Archive's Lifetime Achievement Medal, by the State of California and the cities of Vienna and Los Angeles, where von Dassanowsky lived since 1962.

A modern edition of Ennodius ' correspondence is under way: Stéphane Gioanni, Ennode de Pavie, Lettres, tome I: Livres I et II, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2006, based on her 2004 Ph. D. thesis.

Von Stade was honored with an award in 1983 at the White House by President Reagan in recognition of her significant contribution to the arts and by France's highest honor in the Arts as an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

She has received a number of accolades for her achievements, including the prestigious Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French Minister of Culture.

In 2004, Li Ang was awarded the “ Chevalier de l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ” by the French Minister of Culture and Communication in recognition of her outstanding contribution to world literature.

In March 1996 the government of the province of Antwerp awarded her the Eugène Baie prize, and in May 2000 she was awarded by the French Republic the " Officier dans l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres " title.

Among her earlier works were two novels, Le Man sentimental ( 1783 ), and the Lettres de Mistress Henley ( 1784 ), both of which had a great vogue in their day and paint, from her own experience, the sad results of an unsuitable marriage.