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RENE LE BOSSU (1631-1680)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 287 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOSSU (1631-1680)  , See also:French critic, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 16th of See also:March 1631: He studied at See also:Nanterre, and in 1649 became one of the See also:regular canons of Sainte-See also:Genevieve . He wrote Parallele See also:des principes de la physique d'Aristote et de See also:celle de Rene See also:Descartes (1674), and a Traite du poeme epique, highly praised by Boileau, the leading See also:doctrine of which was that the subject should be chosen before the characters, and that the See also:action should be arranged without reference to the personages who are to figure in the See also:scene . He died on the 14th of March 1680 .

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