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CONRART (or CONRARD), VALENTIN (1603-1675)  , one of the founders of the See also:French See also:Academy, was See also:born in See also:Paris of Calvinist parents . He was educated for a commercial See also:life; but after his See also:father's See also:death in 162o he began to come into contact with men of letters, and soon acquired a See also:literary reputation, though he wrote nothing for many years . He was made councillor and secretary to the See also:king; and in 1629 his See also:house became the resort of men of letters, who met to talk over literary subjects, and to read and mutually criticize their See also:works . See also:Cardinal See also:Richelieu offered the society his See also:protection, and in this way (1635) the French Academy was created . Its first meetings were held in the house of See also:Conrart, who was unanimously elected secretary, and discharged the duties of his See also:post for See also:forty-three years, till his death on the 23rd of See also:September 1675 . The most important of Conrart's works is his Memoires sur l'histoire de son temps published by L . J . N. de Monmerque in 1825 . See also R . Kerviler and Edouard de See also:Barthelemy, Conran, sa See also:vie et sa correspondance (1881); C . B . See also:Petitot, Memoires relatifs a l'histoire de See also:France, tome xlviii .

; and Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (19 juillet 1858) .

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