With Lamartine and other cultivators of the belles-lettres she was likewise acquainted.

The latter was also tutor in rhetoric and professor of belles-lettres and oratory.

The term belles-lettres does not fully express it, for it is too narrow.

You would enjoy a course of belles-lettres, and should take that.

Again, there are documents which belong to the domain of belles-lettres pure and simple.

His library would have satisfied the ambition of a student of history or belles-lettres.

For the fine arts, and especially for the belles-lettres, he entertained a profound contempt.

He never attempted the learned languages, nor manifested any inclination for rhetoric or belles-lettres.

There are more kinds of literature than classical belles-lettres, and perhaps more important kinds.

They had, besides, an academy of belles-lettres, where genius was cultivated, refined, and encouraged.

We must acknowledge our poverty with humility; belles-lettres have never achieved success upon our soil.

I can't write anything but belles-lettres, you possess the pen of a journalist as well.

You are reading belles-lettres now, so read Veresaev's stories.

You are in belles-lettres and you would have been struck by the splendor of that scene.

Several other sailors were diligent readers, though their studies did not lie in the way of belles-lettres.

When I am oppressed by the boredom of belles-lettres I am glad to turn to something else.