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From the fact that the romantic movement in France was, more emphatically than in England and Germany, a breach with the native literary tradition, there result several interesting pecularities. The first of these is that the new French school, instead of fighting the classicists with weapons drawn from the old arsenal of mediæval France, went abroad for allies.

Vojislav Mate Jovanović - La Guzla de Prosper Mérimée