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See also:SOREL, See also:CHARLES, SIEUR DE SOUVIGNY (1597-1674) , See also:French novelist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born in See also:Paris about 1597. Very little is known of his See also:life except that in 1635 he was historiographer of See also:France. He wrote on See also:science, See also:history and See also:religion, but is only remembered by his novels. He tried to destroy the See also:vogue of the See also:pastoral See also:romance by See also:writing a novel of See also:adventure, the Histoire comique de Francion (1622). The episodical adventures of Francion found many readers, who nevertheless reserved their admiration for the Astree it was intended to ridicule. Sorel decided to make his intention unmistakable, and in Le Berger extravagant (3 vols., 1627) he wrote a See also:burlesque, in which a Parisian See also:shop-boy, his See also:head turned by sentiment, chooses an unprepossessing See also:mistress and starts life as a shepherd with a dozen See also:sheep on the See also:banks of the See also:Seine. Sorel did not succeed in See also:founding the novel of See also:character, and what he accomplished was more in the direction of See also:farce, but he struck a shrewd See also:blow at romance. Among his other See also:works are Polyandre (1648) and La Connaissance See also:des bons livres (1673). He died in Paris on the 8th of See also:March 1674.
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