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argued that by giving an enlarged role to the imagination, a suspect faculty, novelists undermined intellectual rigour and blurred the line between truth and invention. Rousseau, a novelist himself, damned novels with faint praise, for they were ‘la dernière instruction qu’il reste à donner à un peuple assez corrompu pour que toute autre lui soit inutile’. The adjective romanesque, which was at first to roman what tragique was to tragédie, acquired a pejorative sense and was standard usage for those