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PELLISSON, PAUL (1624—1693)

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PELLISSON, See also:PAUL (1624—1693) , See also:French author, was See also:born at See also:Beziers on the 3oth of See also:October 1624, of a distinguished Calvinist See also:family. He studied See also:law at See also:Toulouse, and practised at the See also:bar of See also:Castres. Going to See also:Paris with letters of introduction to Valentin See also:Conrart, who was a co-religionist, he became through him acquainted with the members of the See also:academy. Pellisson undertook to be their historian, and in 1653 published a Relation contenant l'histoire de l'academie francaise. This See also:panegyric was rewarded by a promise of the next vacant See also:place and by permission to be See also:present at their meetings. In 1657 Pellisson became secretary to the See also:minister of See also:finance, See also:Nicolas See also:Fouquet, and when in 1661 the minister was arrested, his secretary was imprisoned in the See also:Bastille. Pellisson had the courage to stand by his fallen See also:patron, in whose See also:defence he issued his celebrated Memoire in 1661, with the See also:title Discours au roi, See also:par un de ses fideles sujets sur le proces de M. de Fouquet, in which the facts in favour of Fouquet are marshalled with See also:great skill. Another pamphlet, Seconde defense de M. Fouquet, followed. Pellisson was released in 1666, and from this date sought the royal favour. He became historiographer to the See also:king, and in that capacity wrote a fragmentary Histoire de See also:Louis XI V., covering the years 166o to 167o. In 167o he was converted to Catholicism and obtained See also:rich ecclesiastical preferment.

He died on the 7th of See also:

February 1693. He was very intimate with Mlle de See also:Scudery, in whose novels he figures as Herminius and Acante. His See also:sterling See also:worth of See also:character made him many See also:friends and justified See also:Bussy-Rabutin's description of him as " encore plus honnete homme que See also:bel esprit." See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. xiv.; and F. L. Marcon, Etude sur la See also:vie et See also:les ceuvres de Pellisson (1859).

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