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Topic: Alain Ren Le Sage

	Le Sage, Alain René - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		LE SAGE, ALAIN RENÉ [Le Sage, Alain René], 1668-1747, French novelist and dramatist.
		Of Le Sage's lesser novels, Le Diable boiteux (1707; tr.
		Le Sage made his living by writing light pieces for the theaters of Paris; his best dramatic work is Turcaret (1709), a comedy of character, which bitterly satirizes tax farmers and the world of finance in general.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LeSage-A.asp (171 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alain-Rene Le Sage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Le Sage was both a dramatist and a novelist, and was a prolific writer of plays and romances.
		"Le Diable Boiteux"(1707) is based on a story from the Spanish writer Guevara (1641):The demon Asmodeus removes the roofs of the houses of Madrid, to show to a Castilian student the foibles and vices within the buildings.
		Aside from this Le Sage finds his inspiration in the Parisian himself; he describes Parisian society with truth and picturesqueness in a series of detached adventures and scenes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09189b.htm (540 words)

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