prosateur

plural prosateurs

1. A writer of French prose.

   He rated writers like Machiavelli higher than the prosateurs of his own time.

   2010, John Heilbron, Galileo, →ISBN, page 1

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   As a prosateur he wrote several novels such as Madame André, Sophie, Les Braves Gens, Césarine, Les Morts Bizarres, a series of short stories.

   1894, Rosine Mellé, The Contemporary French Writers, page 62

   For two years, the Parisian press has been much occupied by a school of poets and prosateurs known as the "Decadents".

   2012 -, Nathalia Brodskaya, Symbolism, →ISBN, page 7

   Szkilnik also shows how the prosateur's emphasis on treachery and the cruel punishment of the rebels reflect practices in which Philip of Burgundy engaged in order to put down rebellions of his own, particularly in Flanders.

   2013, Daniel E. O'Sullivan, Laurie Shepard, Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France, →ISBN