Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns

The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (French: Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes) was a debate about literary and artistic merit that expanded from the original debaters to the members of the Académie Française and the French literary community in the 17th century. == Origins of the debate == A central tenet of the European Renaissance was the study of culture and institutions from classical (Greek and Roman) antiquity.

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