Fontenelle touched the matter lightly, as Perraults ally, in his Digression sur les Anciens et les Modernes but afterwards drew back, saying, I do not belong to the party which claims me for its chief.
It was published posthumously, with an explanatory text by Amaury Duval, under the title Monuments des arts du dessin chez les peuples tant anciens que modernes, recueillis par Vivant Denon (4 vols, fol.
The work finally appeared in 1866, under the general title Monuments Anciens du Mexique, in large folio, with complicated sub-titles.
A critical edition of the French text is being prepared by the Société des Anciens Textes.
The Cincq Dialogues faits à l'imitation des Anciens were pseudonymous, and are not included in the collected works.
In the Recueil des Anciens Poëtes, the extracts from them occupy about a volume and a half.
It has been justly remarked, that the extracts from Clotilde in the Recueil des Anciens Poètes occupy too much space, while the genuine writers of the fifteenth century appear in very scanty specimens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anciens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
