biography
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Desmarets, Jean, Sieur de (Lord of) Saint-Sorlin
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pronunciation:
[daymaray]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1595–1676)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Paris, France. He was the author of many volumes of poetry and critical works, notably Comparison of the French Language and Poetry with That of Greek and Latin (1670, trans title). He was the first chancellor and co-founder of the Académie Française, and a protagonist in the ‘ancients versus moderns’ controversy. |
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