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literature was still equated with learning, a body of civilized and civilizing erudition, and the term continued to be used in this sense a hundred years later. But after 1700, littérature became an occupation, even a preoccupation. ‘Les gens de lettres’, normally a pejorative term, were authors who did not restrict themselves to imaginative writing but were concerned with a range of theological, philosophical, historical and scientific matters too. By about 1750, when the word was also current for