EDME See also:

• EDME BOURSAULT (1638-1701)

BOURSAULT (1638-1701)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French dramatist and See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous writer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Mussy l'Eveque, now Mussysur-See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

Seine (See also:

• AUBE

Aube), in See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1638 . On his first arrival in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1651 his See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language was limited to a Burgundian See also:

• PATOIS

patois, but within a See also:

• YEAR

year he produced his first See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, Le Mort vivant . This and some other pieces of small merit secured for him distinguished patronage in the society ridiculed by See also:

• MOLIERE (1622-1673)

Moliere in the Ecole See also:

• DES

des femmes . See also:

• BOURSAULT, EDME (1638-1701)

Boursault was persuaded that the " Lysidas " of that See also:

• PLAY

play was a See also:

• CARICATURE (Ital. caricatura, i.e. "ritratto ridicolo," from caricare, to load, to charge; Fr. charge)

caricature of himself, and attacked Moliere in Le Portrait du peintre ou la contre-critique de l'Ecole des femmes (1663) . Moliere retaliated in L'See also:

• IMPROMPTU (from in promptu, on the spur of the moment)

Impromptu de See also:

• VERSAILLES

Versailles, and Boileau attacked Boursault in Satires 7 and 9 . Boursault replied to Boileau in his See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

Satire des satires (1669), but was afterwards reconciled with him, when Boileau on his See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side erased his name from his satires . Boursault obtained a considerable See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension as editor of a rhyming See also:

• GAZETTE

gazette, which was, however, suppressed for ridiculing a Capuchin See also:

• FRIAR (from the Lat. (rater, through the Fr. frere)

friar, and the editor was only saved from the See also:

• BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build)

Bastille by the interposition of See also:

• CONDE
• CONDE, LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE
• CONDE, LOUIS II
• CONDE, PRINCES OF

Conde . In 1671 he produced a See also:

• WORK

work of edification in Ad usum Delphini: la veritable etude des souverains, which so pleased the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court that its author was about to be made assistant See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to the dauphin when it was found that he was ignorant of See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Latin, and the See also:

• POST

post was given to See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• HUET, PIERRE DANIEL (1630-1721)

Huet . Perhaps in See also:

• COMPENSATION (from Lat. compensare, to weigh one thing against another)

compensation Boursault was made See also:

• COLLECTOR

collector of taxes at Montlucon about 1672, an See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment that he retained until 1688 . Among his best-known plays are Le Mercure galant, the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of which was changed to La Comedie sans titre (1683); La Prin-cesse de See also:

• CLEVES (Ger. Cleve or Kleve)

Cleves (1676), an unsuccessful play which, when refurbished with fresh names by its author, succeeded as Germanicus; Esope d la ville (169o); and Esope d la tour (1701) . His lack of dramatic See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct could hardly be better indicated than by the See also:

• SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme of his Esope, which allows the fabulist to come on the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage in each See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene and recite a See also:

• FABLE (Fr. fable, Lat. fabula)

fable . Boursault died in Paris on the 15th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1701 .

The (Euvres choisies of Boursault were published in 1811, and a See also:

• SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital. schizzo, a rough draft, Lat. schedium, something hastily made, Gr. oxE&os, sudden, off-hand, axeb6v, near by; Ger. Skizze and Fr. esquisse are from the same source)

sketch of him is to be found in M . See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-Rene See also:

• TAILLANDIER

Taillandier's Etudes litteraires (1881) .