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Milieu   Listen
noun
Milieu  n.  Environment. "The intellectual and moral milieu created by multitudes of self-centered, cultivated personalities." "It is one of the great outstanding facts of his progressive relation to the elements of his social milieu."





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"Milieu" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1870. Possibly, as M. Zola once suggested, M. Edmond de Goncourt did at first intend to depict the circus-life, after his wont, in true "naturalistic" manner, softening and extenuating nothing: but "par une delicatesse qui s'explique, il a recule devant le milieu brutal de cirques, devant certaines laideurs et certaines monstruosites des personnages qu'il choisis-sait." The two facts remain that in Les Freres Zemganno M. de Goncourt (1) made professional life in a circus the very blood and tissue of his story; and (2) that ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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