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SIEUR DU PARC ET DE MARIN LE See also: miscellaneous writer, was See also: born at See also: Paris in 1600
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At fourteen years of age he wrote a See also: volume of verse, at twenty a Discours sur l'histoire and at twenty-two a pastoral, La Carithee, which is really a novel
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The persons in it, though still disguised as shepherds and shepherdesses, represent real persons for whose See also: identification the author himself provides a See also: key
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This was followed by a more ambitious attempt, Polexandre (5 vols
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1632—1637)
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The
See also: hero wanders through the See also: world in See also: search of the See also: island home of the princess Alcidiane
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It contains much See also: history and geography; the travels of Polexandre extending to such unexpected places as See also: Benin, the See also: Canary Islands, Mexico and the See also: Antilles, and incidentally we learn all that was then known of Mexican history
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Cytheree (4 vols.) appeared in 163o—1642, and in 1651 the Jeune Alcidiane, intended to undo any harm the earlier novels may have done, for Gomberville became a Jansenist and spent the last twenty-five years of his See also: life in pious retirement
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He was one of the earliest and most energetic members of the See also: Academy
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He died in Paris on the 14th of See also: June 1674
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