Tableau Definition

Tableau Sentence Examples

• Dean gave the tableau a wide berth as he continued back to Bird Song, whistling the entire trip.

• The Tableau economique, though on account of its dryness and abstract form it met with little general favour, may be considered the principal manifesto of the school.

• Sainte-Beuve in his Tableau of 1828 sang the praises of Chenier as an heroic forerunner of the Romantic movement and a precursor of Victor Hugo.

• In 1806 and 1807 he delivered a course of lectures at the Athenee on the language and literature of France from the earliest years; and in 1808 at the emperor's request, he prepared his Tableau historique de l'etat et du progres de la littrature francaise depuis 1789 jusqu'd 1808, a book containing some good criticism, though marred by the violent prejudices of its author.

• Oncken (Frankfort, 1888); a facsimile reprint of the Tableau economique, from the original MS., was published by the British Economic Association (London, 1895).