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See also:SARASIN, or See also:SARRAZIN, See also:JEAN See also:FRANCOIS (1611?-1654) , See also:French author, son of See also:Roger See also:Sarasin, treasurer-See also:general at See also:Caen, was See also:born at Hermanville near Caen . He was educated at Caen, and settled in See also:Paris . As a writer of vers de societe he rivalled Voiture, but he was never admitted to the inner circle of the hotel de See also:Rambouillet . He was on terms of intimate friendship with See also:Scarron, with whom he exchanged verses, with See also:Menage, and with See also:Pellisson . In 1639 he supported Georges de See also:Scudery in his attack on See also:Corneille with a Discours de la tragedie . He accompanied See also:Leon See also:Bouthillier, See also:comte de Chavigny, secretary of See also:state for See also:foreign affairs, on various See also:diplomatic errands . He was to have been sent on an See also:embassy to See also:Rome, but spent the See also:money allotted for the purpose in Paris . This weakened his position with Chavigny, from whom he parted in the See also:winter of 1643-1644 . To restore his fallen fortunes he married a See also:rich widow, but the See also:alliance was of See also:short duration . He joined in the pamphlet See also:war against See also:Pierre de Montmaur, against whom he directed his See also:satire, Bellum parasiticum (1644) . He was accused of See also:writing satires on See also:Mazarin, and for a short See also:time gave up the practice of See also:verse . In 1648, supported by the See also:cardinal de See also:Retz and Madame de See also:Longueville, he entered the See also:household of Armand de See also:Bourbon, See also:prince de See also:Conti, whose See also:marriage with Mazarin's niece he helped to negotiate .
He died of See also:fever at See also:Pezenas, in See also:Languedoc on the 5th of See also:December 1654
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His biographers have variously stated on inadequate See also:evidence that his See also:death was caused by the prince de Conti in a moment of See also:passion, or that he was poisoned by a jealous See also:husband
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The most considerable of his poems were the epic fragments of Rollon conquerant, la guerre espagnole, with Dulot vaincu and the Pompe funebre in See also:honour of Voiture
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As a poet he was overrated, but he was the author of two excellent pieces of See also:prose narration, the Histoire du See also:siege de Dunkerque (1649) and the unfinished Conspiration de Walstein (1651)
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The Walstein has been compared for elegance and simplicity of See also:style to See also:Voltaire's See also: |
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