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  Paul Scarron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul the younger became an abbé when he was nineteen, and in 1633 entered the service of Charles de Beaumanoir, bishop of Le Mans, with whom he travelled to Rome in 1635.
Scarron returned to Paris in 1640, and in 1643 appeared a Recueil de quelques vers burlesques, and in the next year Typhon ou la gigantomachie.
Scarron had long been able to endure life only by the aid of constant doses of opium, and he died on the 6th of October 1660.
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 PAUL SCARRON - LoveToKnow Article on PAUL SCARRON
In 1645 was performed the comedy of Jodelet, ou le maitre valet, the name of which was derived from the actor who took the principal part.
He had also a pension from Fouquet, and one from the queen, which was withdrawn because he was suspected of Frondeur sentiments.
It is in the style of the Spanish picaresque romance, and furnished Thophile Gautier with the idea and with some of the details of his Cap-flame Fracas-fe.
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 Paul Scarron - Wikipedia
Dank des Witzes und Galgenhumors Scarrons, aber auch dank des Charmes und Esprits seiner jungen Frau wurde sein Haus zum Treffpunkt von Literaten und geistig interessierten Aristokraten.
Scarron war aber auch erfolgreich als Autor von Komödien, u.a.
Dies brachte Scarron nach dem Sieg Mazarins 1653 in Schwierigkeiten und veranlasste ihn zu einer mehrmonatigen Entfernung aus Paris.
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 Paul Scarron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Paul cuanto más joven hizo un abbé cuando él era diecinueve, y a 1633 incorporó el servicio de Charles de Beaumanoir, el obispo de Le Mans, con quien él viajó a Roma en 1635.
Scarron vuelto a París en 1640, y en 1643 apareció los burlesques de los vers de Recueil de quelques, y en el gigantomachie siguiente del la del ou de Typhon del año.
Scarron había podido de largo aguantar vida solamente por la ayuda de dosis constantes del opio, y él murió el 6 de octubre de 1660.
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 Illustrious People
Anxious to rid herself of the orphan, Mme de Neuillant arranged for her charge to live with the crippled author Paul Scarron, who was 25 years older than the girl.
As the hostess of the Scarron salon, she had made powerful friends, with whose help she had obtained from Anne of Austria, the queen mother, an allowance of 2,000 pounds.
Scarron, displaying her prescience, agreed and thus began her surprising rise to power.
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 Paul Scarron - Wikipédia
Paul Scarron né le 4 juillet 1610 à Paris, mort le 6 octobre 1660 à Paris, écrivain français.
A partir de 1638, Scarron n'est plus qu'un pauvre corps, tordu et perclus, immobilisé dans un fauteuil, tel qu'il s'est dépeint lui-même avec une féroce et ironique minutie.
Scarron représente le genre burlesque dans la comédie du dix-septième siècle.
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 Scarron, Paul
Paul Scarron stammt aus einer Familie der bonne bourgeoisie parlementaire parisienne, erhält eine gute Bildung und lässt sich die Niederen Weihen erteilen, die ihm z.B. das Besetzen einer einträglichen Domherrenpfründe in Le Mans erlauben.
Dank dem Geist und dem Galgenhumor Scarrons selbst, aber nicht zuletzt auch dank dem Charme seiner hübschen jungen Frau wird sein Haus ein Treffpunkt von Literaten und geistig interessierten Aristokraten.
Als ausgesprochener Vielschreiber, der er ist, betätigt Scarron sich in fast allen Gattungen und kann halbwegs vom Verkauf seiner Werke und von den Zuwendungen seiner Hauptmäzene, des Kardinals de Retz und des Finanzministers Fouquet leben (was ihn für den Verlust des Domherrenstuhls nach seiner Heirat entschädigt).
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 Scaron - Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia's article on 'Josef Hiršal'.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dictionary Definition of scarron What is certain is that Scarron, after having been in perfect health for nearly thirty years, passed twenty more in.
SCARRON, PAUL (1610-1660), French poet, dramatist, novelist and husband of Madame de Maintenon What is certain is that Scarron, after having been in perfect health.
The diminutive Abbe Scarron, who, however, was an abbe only because he owned an abbey, and not because until, pressed on all sides, Scarron found no way of escaping his.
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 Jean François Sarrazin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a writer of vers de société he rivalled Voiture, but he was never admitted to the inner circle of the hotel de Rambouillet.
He was on terms of intimate friendship with Scarron, with whom he exchanged verses, with Ménage, and with Pellisson.
In 1639 he supported Georges de Scudéry in his attack on Corneille with a Discours de la tragedie.
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 SCARRON Paul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Né à Paris en 1610, Paul Scarron issu d’une famille de magistrats d’origine piémontaise, connaît une jeunesse dissipée, puis, sans pour autant cesser de fréquenter les milieux libertins, embrasse la carrière ecclésiastique, en entrant dans les ordres en 1629, et en portant le titre d’abbé.
Scarron joue un rôle décisif dans les destinées du genre burlesque en France.
Scarron est le premier à manifester sa réprobation ; il fait alors appel aux « bons esprits » pour mettre un terme à cette mode en laquelle il voit un fléau et abjure ce style « qui avait gâté tout le monde ».
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 Scarron, Paul --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Scarron's origins were bourgeois, and it was originally intended that he should enter the church.
More results on "Scarron, Paul" when you join.
Paul Gaugin briefly joined van Gogh in the town of Arles, but left after the artist cut off part of his own ear.
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 SCARRON, PAUL (1610-166o) - Online Information article about SCARRON, PAUL (1610-166o)
Scarron returned to Paris in 164o, and in 1643 appeared a Recueil de quelques vers burlesques, and in the next See also:
English, prefixed to his edition of The Comical Romance and other tales by Paul Scarron, done into English by Tom See also:
Savage and others (2 vols., 1892); and Paul Scarron et Francoise d'Aubigne d'apres des documents nouveaux (1894) by A. de Boislisle.
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 AllRefer.com - Paul Scarron (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Paul Scarron (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Paul Scarron[pOl skArON´] Pronunciation Key, 1610–60, French writer.
Scarron married (1652) FranCoise d'AubignE, known later as Mme de Maintenon.
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 Scarron imagine un déguisement original, se plonge dans l'eau glacée, irrémédiablement paralysé (Raphaël Cohen)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A peine scandalisé, cet homme que son père a voué à la fonction ecclésiastique, pour se débarrasser de lui, et tranquillement vivre avec sa nouvelle femme, alors que Paul aime tellement les plaisirs.
Il est vrai que la partie la plus attachante de son histoire la voit aux côté de Paul Scarron, et non du roi vieillissant, dont elle a élevé les enfants qu'il a eus avec Madame de Montespan.
Scarron donne des idées de pièces à Molière ; mais son propre comique est, par lui-même, attachant.
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 Paul Scarron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mais c'est en 1644 que Michel-Antoine Scarron, conseiller du roi et oncle du poète Paul Scarron, trouvant le bâtiment qu'il avait acquis en 1619, trop vétuste, le fait abattre et le remplace par l'hôtel actuel construit sur les plans de Le Vau.
This man born in 1610 of a Parisian member of Parliament and a daughter of magistrate, was a picturesque poet and of...
Parmi ses admirateurs, on trouve Molière, l'écrivain Paul Scarron ou encore le sceptique Saint-Évremond.
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 Scarron, Paul --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Scarron, Paul --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
With his first works, Scarron helped make the burlesque a characteristic literary form of his time.
Scarron's plays, often based on Spanish originals, were important in the theatrical life of Paris.
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 bibliothæca idealis  * un livre, une étoile * ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
En voici quelques-uns, parmi lesquels "Le roman comique", de Paul Scarron.
En Scarron, on découvre un auteur éloquent qui a, comme le dit le préfacier, le sourire aux coins des phrases.
Paule Constat manie avec habileté ces quatre personnages torturés.
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 French Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Seventeenth-century French literature and society; more specifically Paul Scarron, the development of the theatre, relationship between theatre and state; development of the novel in seventeenth-century France.
Modern literature and ideas, particularly in relation to the changing scientific, philosophic, religious and cultural context of the period 1870-1945.
He is the author of critical studies in French and English of the poet and thinker Paul Valéry.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Paul Scarron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906), French painter, often called the father of modern art, who strove to develop an ideal synthesis of naturalistic...
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 Ralyea: travelling comédiens
The 'travelling comédiens' in the sketch are taken from an engraving by Jacques (or Giacomo) Callot (1592 - 1635); a brief biography of this artist is given in [Duchartre, p.
84] to accompany a discussion of Le Roman comique (1651 - 1657), a novel about a travelling acting troupe in the region of Mans, by Paul Scarron (1610 - 1660).
Scarron, besides this novel, is also an important French playwrite.
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 Sonothèque : Jeunesse et Education
Fréquence Sillé, née en 1991 au sein de la Cité Scolaire Paul Scarron, donne la parole aux jeunes scolarisés et met à leur disposition un outil d'apprentissage performant.
Souvenirs d'un voyage effectué par des élèves latinistes de la Cité Scolaire Paul Scarron en mars 2004.
Le récit du périple accompli par deux jeunes Nantais en 1999, leur correspondance avec des collégiens de la Cité Scolaire Paul Scarron et les émissions enregistrées dans les studios de Fréquence Sillé.
www.frequence-sille.org /contenus/sujetsm/listesujets.php4?c=2   (235 words)

  
 Scarron, Paul, The Whole Comical Works of Monsr. Scarron (London: S. & J. Sprint/ J. Nicholson/ R. Parker/ B. Tooke, ...
Scarron, Paul, The Whole Comical Works of Monsr.
Scarron (London: S. Sprint/ J. Nicholson/ R. Parker/ B. Tooke, 1700).
Madam Star, to shift the Discourse, told Donna Inezella, that since she knew so many stories, she would often Importune her to Relate some of ’em.
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 Paris France this city paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
de Maintenon, born Françoise d'Aubigné, was the young widow of the poet Paul Scarron, who'd been 25 years older than she, crippled and sickly.
Scholars doubt that the marriage was ever consummated, but she did gain valuable experience playing hostess to her husband's learned friends.
After Scarron's death she became governess to the King's many illegitimate children by Madame de Montespan, a job that brought her into the King's inner circle, and thanks to the King's generosity, gave her the money to buy the Chateau de Maintenon in 1674.
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 Find in a Library: Paul Scarron
Subjects: Scarron, -- Monsieur, -- 1610-1660 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Scarron Paul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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Scarron, Paul (1610-1660), French writer, born in Paris, and pioneer of the literary genres the drama, the burlesque epic, and the novel.
One of the earliest uses of burlesque in literature was in the ancient Greek mock epic poem “The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice”.
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 AllRefer.com - Maintenon, FranCoise d'AubignE, marquise de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 the poet's pension to his widow, and later Mme de Montespan obtained a pension for her.
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 Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne, marchioness de --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica ...
known as Madame de Maintenon After enduring an impoverished childhood, she married the poet Paul Scarron, 25 years her senior, in 1652.
She presided over Scarron's literary salon, where she was intellectually formed.
Widowed in 1660, she was left penniless, but with the help of influential friends she became governess in 1668 to the king's children born to his mistress, the marchioness de Montespan (1641–1707).
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 MSN Encarta - Paul Scarron
Scarron, Paul (1610-1660), French writer, whose works directly influenced French dramatist Molière.
Born in Paris, Scarron originally studied for a...
Death And Dying: At last I am going…
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