Novator

We need scarcely allude here to works of art: in the sphere of poetry and of fiction, generally, the decay is so universally admitted, now, that the boldest novators would not attempt to contradict it.

France has enjoyed the sad privilege of witnessing twice in her history, at an interval of two or three centuries, a coup d'état directed against her institutions which novators have endeavoured to destroy and to blot out.