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The 4 pages that link to Précieuses, each with the reason it gives.

• French Classical LiteratureCompared with: Their cultivated speech and salon culture complicate simple accounts of literary refinement as a single doctrine.

• Madame de SévignéRelated: Their culture helps explain the polished wit and verbal play in Sévigné’s style.

• Nicolas Boileau-DespréauxCompared with: Boileau satirized the affected language associated with précieuse taste.

• Honoré d'UrféRelated: Later readers connected L’Astrée’s idealized manners and love discourse with précieuse culture.