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    Théophile de Viau (1590 – 25 September 1626) was a French Baroque poet and dramatist. Born at Clairac, near Agen in the Lot-et-Garonne and raised as a...
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    of a comic story by Théophile de Viau. L'éducation que nous avions eue ensemble chez un bon prêtre de la campagne qui tenait de petits pensionnaires...
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  • Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux (1741) and Thérèse Philosophe (1748). Precursors to the libertine writers were Théophile de Viau (1590–1626)...
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  • Philosophe (1748). Precursors to the libertine writers were Théophile de Viau (1590-1626) and Charles de Saint-Evremond (1610-1703), who were inspired by Epicurus...
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    commentators, such as poet Théophile de Viau, wrote plainly about the king's relationship. In his poem Au marquis du Boukinquan, de Viau wrote: "Apollo with...
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    and at least three other miscarriages. Contemporary Huguenot poet Théophile de Viau observed that "it is well known that the king of England / fucks the...
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  • Roberto Viau, Argentinian basketball player Susana Viau (1944–2013), Argentinian journalist Théophile de Viau, French baroque poet and dramatist Pont Viau, a...
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    Spanish poet Luis de Góngora wrote a Fábula de Píramo y Tisbe in 1618, while French poet Théophile de Viau wrote Les amours tragiques de Pyrame et Thisbée...
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    to highlight and comment upon controversies of their own era, like Théophile de Viau who portrayed a Christianized Socrates accused of atheism, while for...
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    confined to Great Britain. It was carried back to France by the poet Théophile de Viau, who was resident in England in 1621 and had then addressed to Buckingham...
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