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'Entretiens', vastly popular in 17th century in France, are 'erudite, but devoid of pedantry' dialogues derived from Platonian tradition, and having syncretic contents and light form. They mirror a dire need for changes awaken by a new spirituality of the epoch: the religious and the secular ethics that, both in courts and in Jesuit Colleges, was expressed as a discourse combining good speech and...