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MARQUIS DE VALBROMEY, See also:COMTE DE See also:CHATEAUNEUF (1568–1625), See also:French novelist and See also:miscellaneous writer, was See also:born at See also:Marseilles on the 11th of See also:February 1568, and was educated at the See also:College de Tsarnon. A See also:partisan of the See also:League, he was taken prisoner in 1595, and, though soon set at See also:liberty, he was again captured and imprisoned. During his imprisonment he read See also:Ronsard, See also:Petrarch and above all the See also:Diana enamorada of See also:George de See also:Montemayor and See also:Tasso's Aminta. Here, too, he wrote the Epitres morales (1598). Honore's See also:brother See also:Anne, comte D'Urfe, had married in 1571 the beautiful Diane de Chateaumorand, but the See also:marriage was annulled in 1598 by See also:Clement VIII. Anne D'Urfe was ordained to the priesthood in 1603, and died in 1621 See also:dean of See also:Montbrison. Diane had a See also:great See also:fortune, and to avoid the See also:alienation of the See also:money from the D'Urfe See also:family, Honore married her in 1600. This marriage also proved unhappy; D'Urfe spent most of his See also:time separated from his wife at the See also:court of See also:Savoy, where he held the See also:charge of See also:chamberlain. The separation of goods arranged later on may have been simply due to money embarrassments. It was in Savoy that he conceived the See also:plan of his novel Astree, the See also:scene of which is laid on the See also:banks of the Lignon in his native See also:province of Forez. It is a leisurely See also:romance in which the loves of Celadon and Astree are told at immense length with many digressions. The recently discovered circumstances of the marriages of the See also:brothers have disposed of the See also:idea that the romance is autobiographical in its See also:main idea, but some of the episodes are said to he but slightly veiled accounts of the adventures of See also:Henry IV.

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story are of the conventional type usual to the See also:pastoral, and they discourse of love with a See also:casuistry and elaborate delicacy that are by no means rustic. The two first parts of Astree appeared in 1610, the third in 1619, and in 1627 the See also:fourth See also:part was edited and a fifth added by D'Urfe's secretary Balthazar Baro. .Astree set the See also:fashion temporarily in the See also:drama as in romance, and no tragedy was See also:complete without See also:wire-See also:drawn discussions on love in the manner of Celadon and Astree. D'Urfe also wrote two poems, La Sireine (1611) and Sylvanire (1625). He died from injuries received by a fall from his See also:horse at Villafranca on the 1st of See also:June 1625 during a See also:campaign against the Spaniards. The best edition of Astree is that of 1647. In 1908 a bust of D'Urfe was erected at Virien (See also:Ain), where the greater part of Astree was written.

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