prosateurs

Updated: May 23, 2025

He was neither a poet nor a moralist, though the latter title in France is often bestowed upon him a fact which strikingly helps to illustrate the Gallic lightness of soil in the moral region. Balzac was the hardest and deepest of prosateurs; the earth-scented facts of life, which the poet puts under his feet, he had put above his head.

Various - The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877