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    Valentin Conrart (French: [valɑ̃tɛ̃ kɔ̃ʁaʁ]; 1603 – 23 September 1675) was a French author, and as a founder of the Académie française, the first occupant...
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    salary as historiographer was diminished by Colbert. Mézeray succeeded Valentin Conrart as permanent secretary to the Académie française (1675), and died at...
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    the bar of Castres. Going to Paris with letters of introduction to Valentin Conrart, a fellow Calvinist, he was introduced to the members of the Académie...
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  • (1962–), American-British novelist. Key work: Girl with a Pearl Earring. Valentin Conrart (1603–1675), writer. Charles J. Fourie Benjamin Constant (1767–1830)...
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    Bussy-Rabutin Jean Chapelain Claude de Chaudebonne Guillaume Colletet Valentin Conrart Pierre Corneille Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Claude Favre de Vaugelas...
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  • 1524) 1605 – Pontus de Tyard, French priest and poet (b. 1521) 1675 – Valentin Conrart, French author, founded the Académie française (b. 1603) 1728 – Christian...
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    Vincent Voiture, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Malherbe, Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear in his...
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  • and cousin of Henri Louis Habert de Montmor, as well as a friend of Valentin Conrart. Philippe was also one of the first members of the Académie française...
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    France), Cardinal Richelieu took an existing literary gathering (around Valentin Conrart) and designated it as the official Académie française in 1634. Other...
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    Perrault and Jean Desmarets. Among his friends at this period were Valentin Conrart and Paul Pellisson. His taste for mathematics led him to the study...
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