Cadrer à and cadrer avec are both used

55. J'approache d'une petite ville . . . j'en veux sortir. This paragraph is remarkable on account of the feeling which La Bruyère expresses towards Nature. Nature was v«y little appreciated by the French writers of the seventeenth century, apart from Lafontaine, who in this, as in other respects, was an exception. This description has been partly reproduced by Picard, a dramatic author of the beginning of the nineteenth century, in his comedy La petite ville , i. 3.