Paul Scarron (c. 1 July 1610 – 6 October 1660) (a.k.a. Monsieur Scarron) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Though his precise...

Françoise d'Aubigné (27 November 1635 – 15 April 1719), known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon (French: [madam də mɛ̃t(ə)nɔ̃]...

authors' votes". BBC News. 7 May 2002. Retrieved 3 January 2010. See Paul Scarron, The Comical Romance, Chapter XXI. "Which perhaps will not be found very...

Corneille, François de Malherbe, Racan, Richelieu, La Rochefoucauld, Paul Scarron, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, and Vincent Voiture. They adopted for themselves...

mock-heroic poems in French were Le Vergile Travesti (The disguised Vergil) by Paul Scarron (1648–52) and The Maid of Orleans by Voltaire (1730). In macaronic Latin...

volume, Bugger sodomizing the State, And bugger of the purest mixture… — Paul Scarron, La Mazarinade (1651) These libelles excited concerns on the part of...

who inserted a number of nearly autonomous stories into his Quixote. Paul Scarron's most famous work, Le Roman comique, uses the narrative frame of a group...

1635, titled L'Eneide travestita del Signor Gio. A French parody by Paul Scarron became famous in France in the mid-17th century, and spread rapidly through...

Virgile travesti is a parody of the Aeneid written by Paul Scarron in 1648. It was inspired by Giovanni Battista Lalli's L'Eneide travestita (The Aeneid...

of her 18th birthday. Françoise d'Aubigné (aged 16/17) was married to Paul Scarron (aged 41/42) in 1652. She later went on to marry Louis XIV of France...