Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean

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Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean (zhäN dāmärā` də săN-sôrlăN`), 1595–1676, French poet and dramatist. A protégé of Richelieu, he was a founding member of the French Academy. In 1670 he precipitated a controversy over the literary merits of the ancients that foreshadowed the polemics of Perrault Perrault, Charles , 1628–1703, French poet. His collections of eight fairy tales, Histoires ou contes du temps passé [stories or tales of olden times] (1697) gave classic form to the traditional stories of Bluebeard, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella,
..... Click the link for more information. and Boileau-Despréaux Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas , 1636–1711, French literary critic and poet. He was the spokesman of classicism, drawing his principles from his contemporaries, among them his friends Racine, Molière, and La Fontaine.
..... Click the link for more information. ; Boileau attacked him in L'Art poétique.

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