See also:

• DESMARETS (or DESMARETZ), JEAN, SIEUR DE SAINTSORLIN (1595-1676)
• DESMARETS, NICOLAS, SIEUR DE MAILLEBOIS (1648-1721)

DESMARETS (or DESMARETZ), See also:

• JEAN

JEAN, SIEUR DE SAINTSORLIN (1595-1676)  , 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 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 1595 . When he was about See also:

• THIRTY

thirty he was introduced to See also:

• RICHELIEU, ARMAND EMMANUEL SOPHIE SEPTEMANIE DU PLESSIS
• RICHELIEU, ARMAND JEAN DU PLESSIS
• RICHELIEU, LOUIS FRANCOIS ARMAND DU PLESSIS

Richelieu, and became one of the See also:

• BAND

band of writers who carried out the See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal's See also:

• LITERARY

literary ideas . See also:

• DESMARETS (or DESMARETZ), JEAN, SIEUR DE SAINTSORLIN (1595-1676)
• DESMARETS, NICOLAS, SIEUR DE MAILLEBOIS (1648-1721)

Desmarets's own inclination was to novel-See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, and the success of his See also:

• ROMANCE

romance Ariane in 1631 led to his formal See also:

• ADMISSION

admission to the circle that metat the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of See also:

• VALENTINE, or VALENTINUS

Valentine See also:

• CONRART (or CONRARD), VALENTIN (1603-1675)

Conrart and later See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed into the Academie Fran9aise . Desmarets was its first See also:

• CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor . It was at Richelieu's See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request that he began to write for the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre . In this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind he produced a See also:

• COMEDY

comedy See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long regarded as a masterpiece, See also:

• LES

Les Visionnaires (1637); a See also:

• PROSE

prose-tragedy, See also:

• ERIGONE

Erigone (1638); and Scipion (1639), a tragedy in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse . His success led to See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official preferment, and he was made conseiller du roi, controleur-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general de l'extraordinaire See also:

• DES

des guerres, and secretary-general of the See also:

• FLEET

fleet of the See also:

• LEVANT

Levant . His long epic See also:

• CLOVIS [Chlodovech] (c. 466-511)

Clovis (1657) is noteworthy because Desmarets rejected the traditional See also:

• PAGAN
• PAGAN (Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a canton, county district, village, commune)

pagan background, and maintained that See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian imagery should supplant it . With this standpoint he contributed several See also:

• WORKS

works in See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of the moderns in the famous See also:

• QUARREL

quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns . In his later years Desmarets devoted himself chiefly to producing a quantity of religious poems, of which the best-known is perhaps his verse See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

Office de la See also:

• VIERGE, DANIEL (1851-1904)

Vierge (1645) . He was a violent opponent of the Jansenists, against whom he wrote a Reponse a l'insolente apologie de See also:

• PORT

Port-Royal .. . (1666) .

He died in Paris on the 28th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1676 . See also H . Rigault, Histoire de la querelle des anciens et des moderns (1856), pp . 8o-103 .