than its practical application. A writer of belles-lettres is a belletrist. Literally, belles-lettres is a French phrase meaning 'beautiful' or 'fine' writing...

arts et des lettres du Québec, a Quebec order based in part on the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres "Conseil de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" [Council of...

Les Lettres nouvelles was a French literary journal, published from 1953 to 1977. It was founded by Maurice Nadeau and Maurice Saillet [fr] and published...

written, and hence arose the lettre de cachet. The lettre de cachet belonged to the class of lettres closes, as opposed to lettres patentes, which contained...

Marcel Lettre (born August 9, 1972) is a former United States federal government official. He served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence...

Gutenberg Translated by Harmelin and Adams Lettres de mon moulin, comic adaptation by Mitteï Les lettres de mon moulin (1954 film adaptation) at IMDb ...

Lettre International is the title of a number of cultural magazines published in various languages in Europe. The history of Lettre International dates...

The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (French pronunciation: [akademi dez‿ɛ̃skʁipsjɔ̃ e bɛl lɛtʁ]) is a French learned society devoted to history...

Bon-Joseph Dacier, secretary of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. It is the founding text upon which Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were first...

A letter of marque and reprisal (French: lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person...