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BOISROBERT, See also:FRANCOIS LE METEL DE (1592-1662) , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Caen in 1592. He was trained for the See also:law, and practised for some See also:time at the See also:bar at See also:Rouen. About 1622 he went to See also:Paris, and by the next See also:year had established a footing at See also:court, for he had a See also:share in the See also:ballet of the Bacchanales performed at the Louvre in See also:February. He accompanied an See also:embassy to See also:England in 1625, and in 163o visited See also:Rome, where he won the favour of See also:Urban VIII. by his wit. He took orders, and was made a See also:canon of Rouen. He had been introduced to See also:Richelieu in 1623, and by his See also:humour and his See also:talent as a raconteur soon made himself indispensable to the See also:cardinal. Boisrobert became one of the five poets who carried out Richelieu's dramatic ideas. He had a See also:passion for See also:play, and was a friend of Ninon de l'Enclos; and his enemies found ready weapons against him in the undisguised looseness of his See also:life. He was more than once disgraced, but never for See also:long, although in his later years he was compelled to give more See also:attention to his duties as a See also:priest. It was Boisrobert who suggested to Richelieu the See also:plan of the See also:Academy, and he was one of its earliest and most active members. See also:Rich as he was through the benefices conferred on him by his See also:patron, he was liberal to men of letters. After the See also:death of Richelieu, he attached himself to See also:Mazarin, whom he served faithfully throughout the See also:Fronde.

He died on the 30th of See also:

March 1662. He wrote a number of comedies, to one of which, La Belle Plaideuse, See also:Moliere's L'Avare is said to owe something; and also some volumes of See also:verse. The licentious Conks, published under the name of his See also:brother D'Ouville, are often attributed to him.

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