Paul Scarron

Paul Scarron is a writer French born the July 4th 1610 with Paris, dead the October 6th 1660 in Paris.

Biography

Seventh child of an adviser at the court of accounts, it enters the orders in 1629. He lives with the Mans of 1632 to 1640, in the entourage of the bishop Charles de Beaumanoir and attends the provincial living rooms. In 1638, it is reached of a disease, after, according to the legend, a naked bath during the carnival, which finishes by it returning paralyzed legs. It starts to write its first works starting from 1643. As from 1638, Scarron is not any more that one poor body, twisted and anchylosed, immobilized in an armchair, such as it east is depicted itself with wild and ironic meticulousness.

It returns to Paris and in 1652, at 42 years, it marries orphan without sixteen years old fortune and half, Francoise d' Aubigné, future little girl of Agrippa of Aubigné and Madam de Maintenon (which, according to its dires, brought “ to him two large eyes strong mutineers, a very beautiful blouse, a pair of beautiful hands, and much d'" esprit" ”). It opens a living room in the district of the Marsh, living room which will be run soon by all the familiar ones of the Louvre.

Itself points out its sufferings in its epitaph remained famous:

That which cy now sleep

the FIT more pity than of desire,

And suffered thousand times death

Before to lose the life.

Passer by, do not make here noise

Garde although you do not wake up it:

Because here the first night

That poor Scarron sommeille.

Work

Scarron represents the kind Burlesque in the comedy of the 17th century. In 1643, its Recueil of some worms burlesques is the origin of an immense vogue. It publishes then the Typhoon (1644), then of 1648 to 1652 the Virgile disguised , parody of Énéide . While writing its best comedies ( Jodelet or the Master servant , 1645, and Gift Japhet d' Arménie , 1653), Scarron also writes a novel: the comic Novel , considered as its masterpiece. The first part is published in 1651, the second in 1657. Scarron dies before to have written the third.

He is also the author of several other comedies: the Schoolboy of Salamanque (1654), the ridiculous Marquis or the countess made with haste (1655), False Appearance (1657), the Prince corsair (1658).

Almost all its parts are imitated Spanish models, in particular of Tirso de Molina and Francisco de Rojas.

Publications

Works , Paris, Toussainct Quinet, 1648 - 1651. Factitious meeting the several works of Scarron all published in the same editor with their title pages and their privileges respective: Typhoon or the gigantomachie , 1648 at All Saints' day Quinet; the true relation of all that occurred in the other world, with the combat of park and of the poets, on the death of Cars and other parts burlesques , 1649 at All Saints' day Quinet; Iodelet , 1648 at All Saints' day Quinet; three Dorotées , 1651 at All Saints' day Quinet; the ridiculous heir , 1650 at All Saints' day Quinet.
Typhoon or Gigantomachie , 1668; Virgile Travesty in worms burlesques , 1668; Comic Romant in 2 parts, 1668; Comic Romant in 3 parts, 1678-1680; New Tragi-comic Works , 1668; Last Works , 1668. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1668 - 1680, 12 volumes in 7 volumes.
Works of Mr Scarron. New edition, Re-examined, corrigee, & augmentee of quantity of Parts omitted in the Back issues. One joined a Dedicatoire Epistle there to the Author, the History of His Life and his Works. And a speech on the Style Burlesque , Amsterdam, J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1737.
Works, new edition, re-examined, corrected and increased , Paris, David, Durand, Pissot, 1752, 12 volumes.
Works of Mister de Scarron. New edition. Review, corrected, & increased… quantity of parts omitted in the back issues , Amsterdam, Wetstein, 1752, 7 volumes. Rare and very complete edition. She is regarded as prettiest at the same time as the best (see Emile Magne, general Bibliographie of works of Scarron , nº 403).
the comic Novel , Janet and Hubert, 1796, 3 volumes.
the Hypocrites , rééd. Thousand and One Nights, Paris, 2005 (with a postface of Joel Gayraud).

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