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"It is quite true," said Joseph de Maistre, "that women have produced no CHEFS-DOEUVRE. They have written no 'Iliad, nor 'Jerusalem Delivered, nor 'Hamlet, nor 'Phaedre, nor 'Paradise Lost, nor 'Tartuffe; they have designed no Church of St.
Esperance adored Racine and refused to study Corneille, before whom Genevieve bowed in enthusiastic admiration. "He is superhuman," she exclaimed, fervently. "That is just what I reproach him for," returned Esperance. "Racine is human, that is why I love him. None of Corneille's heroines move me at all, and I loathe the sorrows of 'Phaedre." "And 'Chimene'?" asked Genevieve Hardouin.
Somers would, perhaps, have acknowledged the beauties of Phaedre, if she had not been piqued by this defiance; but exaggeration on one side produced injustice on the other: and these disputes about Racine and Shakspeare were continually renewed, and never ended to the satisfaction of either party.
"This is a defiance I have heard made by men of letters of the highest reputation in Paris," added la comtesse: "have not you, Mons. l'Abbe?" The abbe, who was madame's common voucher, acceded, with this slight emendation that he had heard numbers defy any critic of good taste to point out a flat line in Phaedre. Mrs.
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