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ܲԱپè
[ brynuh-tyer ]
noun
- ·徱·ԲԻ [fe, r, -dee-, nahn], 1849–1906, French literary critic.
Example Sentences
That literature and language, we have been told by no less an authority than M. ܲԱپè, are pre-eminently social in their strength and their weakness.
Huysmans loved Baudelaire as much as ܲԱپè detested him.
He has told us that because of the diversity of his aptitudes man is distinguished from his fellow animals, and the variety in his labours is a proof positive of his superiority to such fellow critics as the mentally constipated ܲԱپè, the impressionistic Anatole France, the agile and graceful Lemaître, and the pedantic philistine Faguet.
He sums up Ferdinand ܲԱپè as "constipé," a sound definition of a shrewd, unsympathetic critic.
ܲԱپè, who was serious to solemnity, and lacked a funny bone, declared that Huysmans borrowed the incident from a popular vaudeville, Le Voyage à Dieppe, by Fulgence and Wafflard.
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