SCARRON, PAUL

pōl skärôNˈ, 1610–60, French writer. His picaresque novel Le Romant comique (1651) vividly portrays the lives of a company of strolling players. He also wrote short stories, collected as Les Nouvelles tragi-comiques (1655), satires, and burlesque poems and plays. Scarron married (1652) Françoise d'Aubigné, known later as Mme de Maintenon. He was long bedridden with paralysis.

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Robert Drury's Journal and Other Studies
Book by Arthur W. Secord; University of Illinois Press, 1961
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel--1661?-1731, Scarron--Monsieur--1610-1660--Roman comique--English
...year or so before his death in 1660 Scarron wrote a third part; but, whether...Mass., 1939 , pp. 82-83. 2 Scarron in England 1656-1800 . In 1919...imitations of Le Virgile travesti : "Paul Scarron and English Travesty," SP , XVI...
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The Correspondence, 1899-1926, between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide
Book by Robert Mallet, John Russell, Paul Claudel; Pantheon, 1952
Subjects: Claudel, Paul--1868-1955--Correspondence, Gide, Andre--1869-1951--Correspondence
...Scantrel pseudonym of Andre Suares , 108 Scarron, Paul, 272 Schlumberger, Jean, 88...284 Valentine, 189 : 278 Valery, Paul, 242 , 245 , 259 , 280 Vallette...37 , 81 : 240 , 271 Verlaine, Paul, 45 , 64 , 65 , 106 , 128 , 131...
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O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane
Book by Paul Bowles, Langdon Hammer, Brom Weber; Four Walls Eight Windows, 1997
Subjects: Crane, Hart--1899-1932--Correspondence, Poets, American--20th Century--Correspondence
...copywriter. It was an odd experience for me to find a "successful business man" who was interesting as a reader of Paul Scarron, Abbe de Brantome, Anatole France, Ernst Cabell, Anderson, etc. etc. When I get "Dosty" more cleared out of...
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Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Christopher Baker; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Authoritarianism--Europe--History--17th Century, Authoritarianism--Europe--History--18th Century, Enlightenment--Europe--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--17th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--History--18th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Intellectual Life--17th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Europe--Intellectual Life--18th Century--Biography--Dictionaries
SCARRON, PAUL (1610-1660). Author Paul Scarron was born 4 July 1610, shortly after Henri IVs death, and...on 5 or 6 October 1660. Bibliography: F. de Armas, Paul Scarron , 1972; E. Magne, Bibliographie generale des oeuvres...
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The Other Virgil: 'Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture
Book by Craig Kallendorf; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Aeneas (Legendary Character) In Literature, Epic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Virgil--Aeneis
...1860), v. 184 5, s.v. Scarron, Paul; and E. Magne, Bibliographie generale des oeuvres de Scarron (Paris: L. Giraud Badin, 1924). The poem itself may be found in Paul Scarron, Le Virgile travesti , ed. Jean...
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Translation Theory and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the French Novel
Journal article by Albert N. Mancini; Symposium, Vol. 47, 1993
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...italien , 6( 1906 ): 219-33. Raimondi, Ezio ed. Trattatisti e narratori . Milano-Napoli: Ricciardi, 1960 . Scarron, Paul. Le Roman comique . Paris: Toussainct Quniet, 1651-1657 . -----. Il romanzo comico di Scarrone . Venezia...
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Amphitheater Staging: In-the-Round or to the Front (and What about Asides)?
Journal article by Richard Fotheringham; Comparative Drama, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Arena theater--Production and direction, European drama--Renaissance, 1450-1600, Shakespeare, William--Dramatic production, Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery
...figs. 1-20; also the well-known frontispiece (engraved by W. Faithorne) to the 1676 English translation of Paul Scarron, Romans Comiques, which has both a strong frontal bias in the actors poses and a stage raked down from back to front...
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The Petite Commande of 1664: Burlesque in the Gardens of Versailles
Journal article by Thomas F. Hedin; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art criticism, Burlesque, Gardens & gardening, History, Versailles France
...1665, according to his guide, Paul Freart de Chantelou, who spoke...beginning of that span, as did Paul Scarrons Recueil de quelques...published his Jugement de Paris and Scarron the first part of his Virgile...Boileaus, for this reason: if Scarron dresses a princess in the clothes...
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The Orateur in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre Companies
Journal article by C.J. Gossip; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: French drama--History, Orators--History, Orators--Services, Theater companies--Advertising, Theater companies--History
...examples which Brooks cites--Caprice by Scarron and a first Affiche pour la piece dAmarillis...Venez y voir ... might suggest that the Scarron Caprice is not delivered inside that theatre...republished twice, by P. L. Jacob, i.e. Paul Lacroix (Brussels: Mertens et fils...
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Before Contes Du Temps Passe (1697): Charles Perrault's "Griselidis" (1691), "Souhaits Ridicules" (1693), and "Peau D'asne" (1694)
Journal article by Ruth Bottigheimer; The Romanic Review, Vol. 99, 2008
Subjects: Fairy tales--Criticism and interpretation, Griselidis (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Les Souhaits Ridicules (Short fiction)--Criticism and interpretation, Novellas--Criticism and interpretation, Peau d'Asne: Conte, A Madame La Marquise de L. (Short fiction)--Criticism and interpretation, Perrault, Charles--Criticism and interpretation
...XIVs valet in his memoires, (8) by Scarron in his 1651 Roman comique, (9) by La...1696. Rpt. Slatkine, 1979. Bonnefon, Paul. "Charles Perrault. Litterateur et...ton de conte" (Rouget xxii). (9.) Scarron (1633-1703), in his Roman comique...
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newspaper articles on: Scarron Paul  - 2 results

 
 
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Hidden but Hardly Far from View
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 15, 2009
Subjects: Buckley, Veronica
...streets of La Rochelle; eventually married to the poor and hideously deformed, but socially well-connected poet Paul Scarron; governess to the kings bastard children by his mistress Athenais, marquise de Montespan; finally, in middle age...
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Cherchez Les Femmes; Critic's Choice
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 1, 2006
Subjects: Book publishing, Books--Book reviews, Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd.--Book reviews
...final, longest-lasting and most influential mistress. Francoise de Maintenon had been married to a playwright, Paul Scarron, not the badge of respectability in the 17th century that it is for Fraser herself today. Three years older than Louis...


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encyclopedia articles on: Scarron Paul  - 2 results

 
 
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Scarron, Paul
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SCARRON, PAUL pol skaroN , 1610 60, French writer. His picaresque novel Le Romant...tragi-comiques (1655), satires, and burlesque poems and plays. Scarron married (1652) Francoise dAubigne, known later as Mme de Maintenon...
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Maintenon, FranÇoise D'AubignÉ, Marquise De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Protestant aunt. Later cared for by Catholic relatives, she became a very devout Catholic. At 16 she married the poet Paul Scarron and became a figure in the literary and intellectual world of Paris. After his death in 1660 the queen mother continued...


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