Scarron - Paul Scarron

French poet, playwright, and novelist. Born and died in Paris. He entered the religious order and went to Le Mans in 1633 to serve Bishop Charles de Beaumanoir. He returned to Paris in 1640, but his tuberculous rheumatism, which he had already been suffering from, had worsened, his body was twisted, his legs were weakened, and he was confined to a chair. However, he did not succumb to his illness and promoted the popularity of the burlesque style, which made everything comical, with his works "Burlesque Poems" (1643), "Typhon, or the Battle of the Gods and the Giants" (1644), and "Virgil's Plays" (1648-59), while he also published comedies such as "Jodré" (1643), "Jodré slapped" (1647), and "The Comical Heir" (1649). In 1652, he married the unfortunate orphan Françoise d'Aubigné (later Mme de Maintenon (1635-1719), the granddaughter of the poet Agrippa d'Aubigné), and their salon was crowded with people due to his intelligence and his wife's beauty. One of his representative works is the masterpiece of realistic novel "Roman comique " (1651-57), which tells the story of a troupe of traveling actors set in the provincial town of Le Mans and the many humorous and hilarious incidents that occur among the townspeople surrounding them.

[Akimasa Watanabe]

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フランスの詩人、劇作家、小説家。パリに生まれ没す。宗門に入り、1633年、司教シャルル・ド・ボーマノワルに仕え、ル・マンに赴く。40年パリに戻るが、すでに悩んでいた結核性リウマチが高じて、身体(からだ)はねじれ、足は萎(な)え、以後椅子(いす)に座ったきりであったが、病苦に屈せぬ彼は『ビュルレスク詩集』（1643）、『ティポン、または神と巨人の戦い』（1644）、『戯作ウェルギリウス』（1648～59）によってすべてを滑稽(こっけい)しさる道化調(ビュルレスク)burlesqueの流行を促す一方、『ジョドレ』（1643）、『平手打ちをくったジョドレ』（1647）、『滑稽な相続人』（1649）などの喜劇を発表した。52年に詩人アグリッパ・ドービニェの孫娘にあたる薄幸の孤児フランソアーズ・ドービニェFrançoise d'Aubigné〔後のルイ14世の寵妃(ちょうひ)マントノン夫人（1635―1719）Mme de Maintenon〕と結婚、そのサロンは彼の才知と妻の美貌(びぼう)でにぎわった。代表作としては、田舎(いなか)町ル・マンを舞台に展開する旅役者一座と、これを取り巻く町の人々が醸し出す数々の滑稽で陽気な事件を語る現実派小説の傑作『ロマン・コミック』Roman comique（1651～57）がある。

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