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.

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 ).

* In Lettres d ' une Péruvienne, Zilia treasures her quipus.

* Lettres à un gentilhomme russe sur l ' Inquisition espagnole, édit.

In 1655 two very outspoken Lettres à un duc et pair on Jesuit methods in the confessional brought a motion of censorship voted against him in the Sorbonne, in quite an irregular manner.

* Claire Dupond, Lettres à un ami québécois

* Lettres d ’ un Européen, essai ( 1944 )

* Lettres d ’ un Européen et Nouvelles Lettres d ’ un Européen, 1943-1970 ( 1970 — essay )

Lettres à un ami., 1885.

* L ' Esprit de l ' histoire, ou Lettres d ' un père a son fils sur la manére d ' étudier l ' histoire ( 4 vols., 1802 ), which reached several editions, the last number in 1826 having prefixed to it a biographical sketch of the author by his nephew Héricart de Thury

Pompignan was the archbishop of Vienne against whose defence of the faith Voltaire launched the good-natured mockery of Les Lettres d ' un Quaker.

In 1919, Bonnet served as a secretary to the French delegation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and wrote a book, Lettres á un Bourgeois de 1914, that called for widespread social reforms.

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.

However in the statutes there is a clause saying " Les Officiers et les Commandeurs de la Légion d ' honneur peuvent être directement promus à un grade équivalent dans l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

* Lettres à un Aveugle sur des Photographies de Robert Doisneau.

In 1994 came his Lettres d ' un Insoumis ( Letters of a Rebel ), two volumes of autobiographical correspondence.

fr: Lettres d ' un cultivateur américain

His major geological work, Lettres physiques et morales sur les montagnes et sur l ' histoire de la terre et de l ' homme, first published in 1778, and in a more complete form in 1779, was dedicated to Queen Charlotte.

" Nelligan, de l ' homme à l ' œuvre ", in Lettres québécoises, numéro 49, Spring 1988

* Pascal Boyeldieu and C. Seignobos, " Contribution à l ' étude du pays niellim ( Moyen-Chari – Tchad )", L ' homme et le milieu, Aspects du développement au Tchad, N ' Djamena, " Annales de l ' Universite du Tchad ", Série: Lettres, Langues vivantes et Sciences humaines, no.

revised, appeared in 1867 under the title Les Forts de la Gaule et de l ' ancienne France ); La Terre et l ' homme, a general historical sketch of geology, geography and ethnology, being the introduction to the Histoire universelle, by Victor Duruy ( 1854 ); Histoire des religions de la Grèce antique, ( 3 vols., 1857 – 1859 ); La Magie et l ' astrologie dans l ' antiquité et dans le Moyen âge ( 1863 ); Histoire de l ' ancienne Académie des sciences ( 1864 ); Histoire de l ' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ( 1865 ); a learned paper on the reports of French archaeology, written on the occasion of the Exposition Universelle ( 1867 ); a number of articles in the Encyclopédie moderne ( 1846 – 1851 ), in Michaud's Géographie universelle ( 1858 and seq.

They were originally written as a series of bimonthly essays for the magazine Les Lettres Nouvelles.

* 1949: Lettres écrites de Corse et de Bretagne ( Letters written from Corsica and Brittany )

Les Lettres Portugaises ), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, is a work believed by most scholars to be epistolary fiction in the form of five letters written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues ( 1628 – 1685 ), a minor peer, diplomat, secretary to the Prince of Conti, and friend of Madame de Sévigné, the poet Boileau, and the dramatist Jean Racine.

The Letters of a Portuguese Nun were written in the same style as " The Heroides ", a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid, and " Lettres d ' Héloise à Abélard ", a medieval story of passion and Christian renunciation.

Lettres philosophiques or ) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England ( though from 1707 the country was part of Great Britain ) between 1726 and 1729.

Persian Letters ( Lettres persanes, written 1721 ) is a literary work by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who are traveling through France.

The Lettres provinciales ( Provincial letters ) are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte.

Other epistolary novels followed by Claude Barbin, Vincent Voiture, Edmé Boursault, Fontenelle ( who used the form to introduce discussion of philosophical and moral matters, prefiguring Montesquieu's Lettres persanes in the 18th century ) and others ; actual love letters written by noble ladies ( Madame de Bussy-Lameth, Madame de Coligny ) were also published.