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| Scarron, Paul |
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(p l skärôN´) (KEY) , 1610–60, French writer. His picaresque novel Le Romant comique (1651) vividly portrays the lives of a company of strolling players. He also wrote short stories, collected as Les Nouvelles tragi-comiques (1655), satires, and burlesque poems and plays. Scarron married (1652) Françoise d’Aubigné, known later as Mme de Maintenon. He was long bedridden with paralysis. |
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