Litterateur Definition

Litterateur Sentence Examples

• Of a less severe type were Cherbuliez, the novelist; TSpffer, who spread a taste for pedestrianism among Swiss youth; Duchosal, the poet; Marc Monnier, the litterateur; not to mention the names of any persons still living, or of politicians of any date.

• Again, origins attract the litterateur; he revels in describing the transition from the pre-religious to the religious era.

• Helvetius, Claude Adrien (1715-1771), French philosopher and litterateur, was born in Paris in January 1715.

• His writings of this kind, though too laudatory and somewhat diffuse, have great merit; they abound in those anecdotal details, natural yet not obvious reflections, and vivacious turns of thought, which made Gibbon style him, with some extravagance certainly, though it was true enough up to Gassendi's time - "le meilleur philosophe des litterateurs, et le meilleur litterateur des philosophes."