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Belles-lettres
Belles-lettres Belles-let"tres, n. pl. [F.] Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

Meaning of Lettres from wikipedia

- 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...
- than its practical application. A writer of belles-lettres is a belletrist. Literally, belles-lettres is a French phrase meaning 'beautiful' or 'fine' writing...
- 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...
- The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (French pronunciation: [akademi dez‿ɛ̃skʁipsjɔ̃ e bɛl lɛtʁ]) is a French learned society devoted to history...
- Marcel Lettre (born August 9, 1972) is a former United States federal government official. He served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence...
- 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...
- Gutenberg Translated by Harmelin and Adams Lettres de mon moulin, comic adaptation by Mitteï Les lettres de mon moulin (1954 film adaptation) at IMDb ...
- 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...
- Des chiffres et des lettres (French: [de ʃifʁ e de lɛtʁ]; "Numbers and Letters") is a French television programme which originally aired from 1965 to...
- term "man of letters" derives from the French term belletrist or homme de lettres but is not synonymous with "an academic". A "man of letters" was a literate...