biography
| name: |
Scudéry, Georges de
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pronunciation:
[sküdayree]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1601–67)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Le Havre, NW France. He left the army to take up literature. Unsuccessful at first, he composed in a fit of pique Observations sur le Cid (1636–7), against Corneille, his friend. Protected by Richelieu he secured a post in Marseille (1644–7), then was exiled to Rouen at the time of the Fronde. He entered the Académie Française in 1649. He put his name to some novels by his sister, Madeleine de Scudéry, who was famous in the ‘salons précieux’ where she figured as ‘Sappho’ in her saga Grand Cyrus (10 vols, 1649–53), followed by Clélie (1654–60), where Chapelain persuaded her to include the Carte du Ftendre. She opened her own salon in 1650 and also published poetry. |
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