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Scarron, Paul
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A French humourist, writer of the burlesque, born, of good parentage, in Paris; entered the Church, and was for some years somewhat lax-living abbé of Mans, but stricken with incurable disease settled in Paris, and supported himself by writing; is chiefly remembered for his "Virgile Travesti" and "Le Roman Comique," which "gave the impulse out of which sprang the masterpieces of Le Sage, Defoe, Fielding, and Smollett"; married in 1652Françoise d'Aubigné, a girl of fifteen, afterwards the famous Madame de Maintenon (q. v .); was a man who both suffered much and laughed much (1610-1660).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Scarron, Paul'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/scarron-paul.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Scarron, Paul'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/s/scarron-paul.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
