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    Paul Scarron (c. 1 July 1610 – 6 October 1660) (a.k.a. Monsieur Scarron) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Though his precise...
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    Françoise d'Aubigné (27 November 1635 – 15 April 1719), known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon (French: [madam də mɛ̃t(ə)nɔ̃]...
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    Corneille, François de Malherbe, Racan, Richelieu, La Rochefoucauld, Paul Scarron, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, and Vincent Voiture. They adopted for themselves...
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    authors' votes". BBC News. 7 May 2002. Retrieved 3 January 2010. See Paul Scarron, The Comical Romance, Chapter XXI. "Which perhaps will not be found very...
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    Molière and Jean Racine, along with a few works by Pierre Corneille, Paul Scarron and Jean Rotrou. In the 18th century, the Comédie-Française was often...
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  • mock-heroic poems in French were Le Vergile Travesti (The disguised Vergil) by Paul Scarron (1648–52) and The Maid of Orleans by Voltaire (1730). In macaronic Latin...
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    who inserted a number of nearly autonomous stories into his Quixote. Paul Scarron's most famous work, Le Roman comique, uses the narrative frame of a group...
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  • Virgile travesti is a parody of the Aeneid written by Paul Scarron in 1648. It was inspired by Giovanni Battista Lalli's L'Eneide travestita (The Aeneid...
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    volume, Bugger sodomizing the State, And bugger of the purest mixture… — Paul Scarron, La Mazarinade (1651) These libelles excited concerns on the part of...
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    1635, titled L'Eneide travestita del Signor Gio. A French parody by Paul Scarron became famous in France in the mid-17th century, and spread rapidly through...
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  • of her 18th birthday. Françoise d'Aubigné (aged 16/17) was married to Paul Scarron (aged 41/42) in 1652. She later went on to marry Louis XIV of France...
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    contemporaries. In Clélie, Herminius represents Paul Pellisson; Scaurus and Lyriane were Paul Scarron and his wife (who became Mme de Maintenon); and...
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  • Boisrobert L’Héritier ridicule, by Paul Scarron Don Japhet d’Arménie, by Paul Scarron Jodelet ou le Maître valet, by Paul Scarron Jodelet prince, by Thomas Corneille...
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  • Saint-Évremond, French soldier, critic and essayist (died 1703) July 4 – Paul Scarron, French poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1660) July 18 – Antonio de...
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  • Salmon (1881–1969) Albert Samain (1858–1900) Henriette Sauret (1890–1976) Paul Scarron (1610–1660) Maurice Scève (1501–1564) Georges Schehadé (1907–1989) Pierre...
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    authors. Jean de La Fontaine, Pierre Corneille, Madame de Sevigné and Paul Scarron were a few of the many artists and authors who received his invitations...
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    Landscape with Diogenes. In 1649 he painted the Vision of St Paul for the comic poet Paul Scarron, and in 1651 the Holy Family for the duc de Créquy. Landscapes...
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    Paulet Madame de Sévigné Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier Paul Scarron Georges de Scudéry Madeleine de Scudéry Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux Vincent...
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    with Madame Scarron (a popular paramour of French King Louis XIV and prior to that the wife of noted French poet/playwright Paul Scarron). In the late...
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    Shakespeare's Late Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 6 and 99 See Paul Scarron, The Comical Romance, Chapter XXI. "Which perhaps will not be found very...
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  • August 31 – Johann Freinsheim, German critic (born 1608) October 6 – Paul Scarron, French dramatist and novelist (born c. 1610) December 31 – Thomas Powell...
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    was so easy a matter to laugh at the approach of death.": 143–144  — Paul Scarron, French poet, dramatist and novelist (6 October 1660) "O, my poor soul...
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  • Ecclesiasticall and Civil John Milton – Defensio pro Populo Anglicano Paul Scarron – Roman comique (Comic romance, first part) Filip Stanislavov – Abagar...
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  • Donde hay agravios no hay zelos and the Amo criado were imitated by Paul Scarron in his Jodelet Souffleté and Maître Valet. Entre Bobos anda el juego...
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    are very strong. Indeed, many school projects are organized each year. Paul Scarron (1610–1660) – writer, lived in Fontenay-aux-Roses. Theresa Cabarrus (1773–1835)...
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  • (1607–1685) Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) Jean Rotrou (1609–1650) Paul Scarron (1610–1660) François-Eudes de Mézeray (1610–1683) Charles de Saint-Evremond...
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  • and animal trainers so delighted the fair-going public that in 1643, Paul Scarron dedicated a poem on the subject to the Duke of Orléans. Among the most...
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    Spanish Golden Age literature on authors such as Pierre Corneille and Paul Scarron. Spanish influence was also brought to France by Spanish Protestants...
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    parody by Giovanni Battista Lalli, imitated in the Virgile travesti by Paul Scarron, Il Malmantile racquistato by Lorenzo Lippi (1676) and several others...
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  • (1597–1648) Tristan L'Hermite (1601?-1655) Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) Paul Scarron (1610–1660) Isaac de Benserade (1613–1691) Georges de Brébeuf (1618–1661)...
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