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Yet, despite the general acceptance by rhetorical scholars that style is more than \"\"ornamental,\"\" few critics have attempted to consider the practical application of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's ideas with regard to actual texts. Drawing upon these ideas, as well as Kenneth Burke's discussion of the \"\"psychology of form\"\" in Counter-Statement (1931), this study offers close stylistic readings of six sermons by France's best known neoclassical orator, Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627--1704). Delivered during Lent before the court of Louis XIV, the sermons provide an especially rich case study for examining the argumentative potential of figures. 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