Georges de Scudéry

Georges de Scudéry , born the August 22nd 1601 with the Harbor, dead the May 14th 1667 with Paris, is a novelist and dramatic author French.

Biography

He is the older brother of Madeleine de Scudéry with which he will write several novels published under his only name. He chooses initially the military career, but in 1630 gives up it to devote itself entirely to the writing. In 1637, at the time of the quarrel having followed the publication of the Cid of Crow, it lines up resolutely in the camp of the adversaries of the part.

It will profit a long time from the protection of the cardinal of Richelieu and, after the disappearance of the minister, it adopts a careful neutrality with regard to the cardinal Mazarin, which appoints it governor of the fort of Our-Lady-of-the-Guard with Marseilles (1644-1647) and a master's certificate of the galères confers to him, purely honorary load though lucrative.

Having taken party for the Large Cop during the Sling, it is exiled in Normandy and is fixed at Rouen, where it marries in 1657 the rich person Marie-madeleine (or Marie-Francoise) of Martinvast (1631-1712), which will maintain a long correspondence with Roger de Bussy-Rabutin. He is elected member of the French Academy in 1650.

Works

; Novels written in collaboration with his/her sister

Ibrahim or the Famous one Based (1642) (begun again with the theater in tragi-comedy)
Artamène or Large Cyrus (10 volumes, 1649-1653)
Clélie (1654-1660)
Almahida (8 volumes, 1660-1663)

; Theater

Lydamon and Lydias (1631)
the Misleading one punished (1633)
the Comedy of the actors (1634)
Vassal the generous (1635)
the Prince disguised (1635)
the tyrannical Love (1638)
Ibrahim or the Famous one Based (1642), drawn from the novel éponyme

; Others

Observations on “Cid” (1637)
Proof of passages pled in the “Observations on “Cid” (1637)
Alaric or overcome Rome (1654), poem epic

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