belles lettres's Usage Examples:

fine gentleman and understands conversation and the belles lettres; is well bred.

professors whose goal in first-year composition is to teach students to explicate belles lettres.

The scholar Dubravka Juraga describes her as the beloved doyenne of Yugoslav belles lettres.

belles lettres (the Cresset Library was a uniquely imaginative series of punctiliously edited reprints), and with James Shand of Shenval Press in charge of.

Belles-lettres or belles lettres is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing.

From 1826 to 1830, he was professor of modern languages and belles lettres in the University of North Carolina.