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COLLATION ( See also: special purpose of comparison, and thus, particularly, the critical examination of the texts of documents or See also: MSS. and the result of such comparison
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The word is also a See also: term in printing and See also: bookbinding for the See also: register of the " signatures," the number of quires and leaves in each quire of a See also: book or MS
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In See also: Roman and Scots See also: law " collation " answers to the See also: English law term "hotch-pot" (q.v.)
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From another meaning of the Latin word, a consultation or See also: conference, and so a See also: treatise or See also: homily, comes the title of a See also: work of Johannes Cassianus (q.v.), the Conferences of the Fathers (Collationes Patrum)
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Readings from this and similar See also: works were customary in monasteries; by the See also: regula of St Benedict it is ordered that on rising from supper there should be read collationes, passages from the lives of the Fathers and other edifying works; the word is then applied to the discussions arising from such readings
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On fast days it was usual in monasteries to have a very See also: light See also: meal after the Collatio, and hence the meal itself came to be called " collation," a meaning which survives in the See also: modern use of the word for any light or quickly prepared repast
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See also: COLL$, See also: CHARLES (1709–1783), French dramatist and
See also: song-writer, the son of a See also: notary, was See also: born at See also: Paris in 1709
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He was early interested in the rhymes of See also: Jean Heguanier, then the most famous maker of couplets in Paris
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From a notary's office Colle was transferred to that of M. de Neulan, the See also: receiver-general of See also: finance, and remained there for nearly twenty years
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When about seventeen, however, he made the acquaintance of See also: Alexis See also: Piron, and afterwards, through Gallet (d
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1757), of Panard
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The example of these three masters of the See also: vaudeville, while determining his vocation, made him diffident; and for some See also: time he composed nothing but amphigouris—verses whose merit was measured by their unintelligibility
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The friendship of the younger Crebillon, however, diverted him from this by-way ofSee also: art, and the establishment in 1729 of the famous "Caveau " gave him a See also: field for the display of his
See also: fine talent for popular song
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In 1739 the Society of the Caveau, which numbered among its members Helvetius, Charles See also: Duclos, See also: Pierre See also: Joseph See also: Bernard, called Gentil-Bernard, Jean Philippe See also: Rameau, Alexis Piron, and the two Crebillons, was dissolved, and was not reconstituted till twenty years afterwards
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His first and his best See also: comedy, La Verite clans le vin, appeared in 1747
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Meanwhile, the See also: Regent See also: Orleans, who was an excellent comic actor, particularly in representations of low
See also: life, and had been looking out for an author to write suitable parts for him, made Colle his reader
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It was for the duke and his associates that Colle composed the greater See also: part of his Theatre de societe
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In 1763 Colle produced at the Theatre See also: Francais See also: Dupuis et Desronais, a successful sentimental comedy, which was followed in 1771 by La Veuve, which was a See also: complete failure
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In 1774 appeared La Partie de See also: chasse de See also: Henri Quatre (partly taken from See also: Dodsley's See also: King and the
See also: Miller of Mansfield), Colle's last and best See also: play
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From 1748 to 1772, besides these and a multitude of songs, Colle was writing his Journal, a curious collection of See also: literary and See also: personal strictures on his boon companions as well as on their enemies, on Piron as on Voltaire, on La Harpe as on Corneille
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Colle died on the 3rd of See also: November 1783
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His lyrics are See also: frank and jovial, though often licentious
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The subjects are love and See also: wine; occasionally, however, as in the famous lyric (1756) on the capture of See also: Port Mahon, for which the author received a pension of 600 livres, the note of patriotism is struck with no unskilful hang, while in many others Colle shows himself possessed of considerable epigrammatic force
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See also H
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Bonhomme's edition (1868) of his Journal et Mimoires (1748–1772); See also: Grimm's Correspondance; and C
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A
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Sainte-Beuve, Nouveaux lundis, vol. vii
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