Paul Scarron

Paul Scarron (1610-1660) was a French humourist, writer of the burlesque, born, of good parentage, in Paris. He 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. He 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". He married in 1652 Françoise d'Aubigné, a girl of fifteen, afterwards the famous Madame de Maintenon. He was a man who both suffered much and laughed much.

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