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Chapter 127

8 Chapelle was a wealthy bourgeois who composed light satirical verse for the amusement of friends like the


8 Chapelle was a wealthy bourgeois who composed light satirical verse for the amusement of friends like the playwright Molière (see note for p. 79, l. 2) and the fabulist La Fontaine (see note for p. 134, ll. 6–7).