Corneille paid homage to virtue, Crébillon the younger to frivolity and vice, but both the virtue and the vice were conscious and acquired.
Biographers inform us that Crébillon composed in a similar way.
Crébillon obtained permission from the French Academy to make his reception discourse in verse.
Perhaps no one felt more keenly than did Crébillon fils the growing popularity of a novel the purity of which but enhanced the obscenity of his own writings.
Even here he did not go so far as to mention any name, but the allusion to Crébillon fils was evident.
Footnote 4129: "The novels of the younger Crébillon were in fashion.
Even with Crébillon fils, even with Laclos, at the most exciting moments, the terms their characters employ are circumspect and irreproachable.
Richelieu was in truth the most eminent of that race of seducers by profession, who furnished Crébillon the younger and La Clos with models for their heroes.
The truth is that Stendhal was in some ways a generation behind his time, and often has an odd, old-fashioned flavor suggestive of Marivaux and Crébillon fils.
A billon coin, or rather copper washed with silver, struck in the reign of James VI.
The decimal system was adopted in place of the old system of livres tournois, seigniorage was abolished, and fixation of value given to the unit money, and billon money discontinued.
The restriction was ineffectual in preventing either the import of foreign billon specie or the operations of billonage or arbitrage, based on the differentiated value of the various kinds of billon circulating.
When, therefore, the Spanish Government began the enormous issues of base billon money which mark the reign of Philip IV.
Not a word is said as to the ratio, and much more stress is laid upon the suppression of billon money and on the abolition of seigniorage, as of greater importance and benefit to the nation's interests.
The important point to notice in connection with this is that, in order to mitigate the effect of this reduction, the same decree limited the tender of such billon money.
From being the original gold coin of highest denomination, it came to be a silver coin, then a billon coin of the very lowest denomination, as it is to-day.
The billon money was to consist of blancas (7 grs.
About this time the mist dispersed and the cavalry were checked by severe machine-gun fire from Billon Wood and the high ground to the north of it.
Hetley says about this bombardment, "The shelling of Billon Wood was one of the heaviest I have ever undergone, being quite comparable to Bullecourt or the Salient in 1917.
I hardly know any one in literature of whom it is truer and more adequate than it is of Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon the younger, commonly called Crébillon fils.
Congreve and Crébillon are as far off as Marlowe and Webster; in fact, the descent from Crébillon's M.
It has been said more than once that Crébillon had early access to Hamilton's MSS.
In suggesting that Crébillon would have made it charming, the great critic has perhaps made another of those slips which show the novitiate.
The Marquis and the Marquise have entered upon one of the fashionable liaisons which Crébillon described in his own way.
Voltaire and Sterne were no doubt greater men than Crébillon fils: and though both of them dealt with the same class of subject, they also dealt with others, while he did not.
Now you should never scamp or hurry over business: and Crébillon observes this doctrine in the most praiseworthy fashion.
This perception rarely fails: and conventional, and very unhealthily conventional, as the Crébillon world is, the people who inhabit it are made real people.
The Regency produced Crébillon, not Crébillon the Regency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "billon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
