belles-lettres

Charles de la Rue, a French Jesuit, died; distinguished as an orator and poet and a professor of belles-lettres.

There are usually three lectures daily; the first on sciences, and the other two on belles lettres.

In a single department of belles-lettres he had shown mastery.

Among his contributors of belles lettres we find the names of the authors just mentioned, and also several others.

They consequently reflect, like the belles lettres, the conditions under which the Jews are laboring.