All this applies to what is called belles-lettres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife] Reference

The standard by which all of belles-lettres are to be judged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crit List 7: Let The Parade Of Sleaze Begin -- The Fungus and Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas] Reference

You would enjoy a course of belles-lettres, and should take that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference

The harlots were the Muses of belles-lettres during the Renaissance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

So are made the belles-lettres and the beaux-arts and their professors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

“Not as much as I do you,” the critic of belles-lettres would insist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

Throughout her life, Bracha Habas sought also to engage in belles-lettres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracha Habas.] Reference

The belles-lettres studies have been given a larger place than they had before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference

Science has not made so much progress as belles-lettres and history, though Laval.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada] Reference

The latter was also tutor in rhetoric and professor of belles-lettres and oratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference

Czech tradition of belles-lettres were received with vast gratitude by the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture] Reference

You are in belles-lettres and you would have been struck by the splendor of that scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference

For the fine arts, especially for the belles-lettres, he entertained a profound contempt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

In the department of essays and miscellaneous belles-lettres, the names of George William.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation in a Nutshell] Reference

Paul, it is a self-contradictory formulation recurrent in belles-lettres as well as in logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [LITERARY PARADOX] Reference

Rousseau vigorously denied, however, that human perfection consisted in science or belles-lettres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

There are more kinds of literature than classical belles-lettres, and perhaps more important kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [What the Schools Teach and Might Teach] Reference

American scholarly trends, steering their students away from popular pulp literature to belles-lettres.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bibliographical Essay] Reference

If Geneva has been the fireside of learning and of belles-lettres, it has not been less the home of the fine arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

The Spanish has but a small literature; and while Germany has excelled in many things, belles-lettres is not one of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [What the Schools Teach and Might Teach] Reference

No one is under an obligation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous literature which is classed as belles-lettres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live from the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit] Reference

After spending some time at Geneva and Frankfort-on-Main, he became professor of belles-lettres in the French school of Berlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Longfellow was some dozen years the elder; and when the time came that he wished to retire from the professorship of belles-lettres in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans] Reference

London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang are listed as books for youth whereas Martin Eden is belles-lettres or "fine literature.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bibliographical Essay] Reference

The third stage consists of belles-lettres and essay writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Education] Reference

You are reading belles-lettres now, so read Veresaev's stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference

The term belles-lettres does not fully express it, for it is too narrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Essays] Reference

I can't write anything but belles-lettres, you possess the pen of a journalist as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference

When I am oppressed by the boredom of belles-lettres I am glad to turn to something else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference

He could write clever verse, he was a devotee of belles-lettres, and a sceptic in the fashion of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)] Reference

The best English poets, of every description, and other works on belles-lettres, made a part of this precious cargo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference

It has enlarged the field of belles-lettres, certainly, but not permanently, I think, in the case of the artistic novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of Letters as a Man of Business] Reference