biography
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Tristan L'Hermite
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pseudonym of François L'Hermite
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pronunciation:
[treestã lairmeet]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1601–55)
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| biography:
| Playwright and poet, born in La Marche, NEC France. Exiled for a time in England after a duel, he returned to France in 1621, where he dominated the theatre with his tragedies, which include Marianne (1636), Penthée (1637), and La mort de Sénèque (1644). He was the first to write French tragedies in which love is central to the action. Other works include Les Amours de Tristan (1638), written in the spirit of the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormès, and the comedy Le Parasite (1654). The autobiographical Le Page disgracié (1642) was reprised by Marcel Arland in 1949. Tristan was admitted to the Académie Française in 1649. He led an adventurous life, gambled away his wealth, and died in poverty. |
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