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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 228 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROY See also:GOMBERVILLE (1600—1674)  , See also:French novelist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at See also:Paris in 1600 . At fourteen years of See also:age he wrote a See also:volume of See also:verse, at twenty a Discours sur l'histoire and at twenty-two a See also:pastoral, La Carithee, which is really a novel . 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 . This was followed by a more ambitious See also:attempt, Polexandre (5 vols . 1632—1637) . The See also:hero wanders through the See also:world in See also:search of the See also:island See also:home of the princess Alcidiane . It contains much See also:history and See also:geography; the travels of Polexandre extending to such unexpected places as See also:Benin, the See also:Canary Islands, See also:Mexico and the See also:Antilles, and incidentally we learn all that was then known of Mexican history . 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 See also:Gomberville became a Jansenist and spent the last twenty-five years of his See also:life in pious retirement . He was one of the earliest and most energetic members of the See also:Academy . He died in Paris on the 14th of See also:June 1674 .

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