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See also: born at Angou.leme in 1594
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At the age of eighteen he travelled in See also: Holland with
See also: Theophile de Viand, with whom he later exchanged bitter recriminations
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He was early befriended by the duc d'See also: Epernon and his son See also: Louis,
See also: Cardinal de la Valette, who took him to See also: Rome
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His letters written to his acquaintances and to many who held a high position at the French See also: court gained for him a See also: great reputation
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Compliments were showered upon him, he became an habitue of the Hotel de Rambouillet, and his See also: head appears to have been turned a little by his success
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See also: Richelieu was lavish of praise and promises, but never offered Balzac the preferment he expected
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In 1624 a collection of his Lettres was published, and was received with great favour
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From the chateau of Balzac, whither he had retired, he continued to correspond with See also: Jean See also: Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and others
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In 1634 he was elected to the See also: Academy
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He died at Angouleme on the 18th of See also: February 1654
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His fame rests chiefly upon the Lettres, a second collection of which appeared in 1636
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Recueil de nouvelles lettres was printed in the next See also: year
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His letters, though empty and affected in See also: matter, show a real mastery of See also: style, introducing a new clearness and precision into French See also: prose and encouraging the development of the language on See also: national lines by emphasizing its most idiomatic elements
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Balzac has thus the See also: credit of executing in French prose a reform parallel to Maiherbe's in verse
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In 163r he published an eulogy of Louis XIII. entitled Le See also: Prince; in 1652 the Socrate chretien, the best of his longer See also: works; Aristippe ou de la Cour in 1658; and several See also: dissertations on style
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His Euvres were collected (2 vols.) in 1665 by See also: Valentine Conrart
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There are numerous See also: English See also: translations from Balzac, dating from the 17th century
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