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Meanings of homme de lettres in English
Spanish
hombre de letras Usage of homme de lettres in English
1
Had not Victor Hugo left in the hotel-books on the Rhine his designation " homme de lettres"?
2
He was an homme de lettres connected with a leading paper, and a deputy in the Corps Legislatif for the department of the Hautes-Pyrenees.
3
Such examples, no doubt, were familiar to Gustave Rameau, and " homme de lettres" was on the scrap of pasteboard nailed to his door.
4
"Tant pis pour Sorrente," said the homme de lettres, carelessly.
5
"Monsieur," answered Isaura, rather startled at that question, from a professed homme de lettres, "Eleonora did not live at Sorrento."