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, Marquise de Maintenon (redirect from Madame Scarron)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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