Scarron
Paul [pawl], /pɔl/, 1610–60, French novelist, dramatist, and poet.
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How to use Scarron in a sentence
She was married first at the age of sixteen to the legless and lecherous writer Paul Scarron.
Madame Scarron was then thirty-four, in the pride of womanly grace and dignity, with rare intellectual gifts and accomplishments.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII | John LordNo woman before or after her ever exerted so great an influence on the fortunes of a kingdom as did the widow of the poet Scarron.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VII | John LordThough Scarron wrote comedies, he had not patience to study the rules of dramatic poetry.
The Book of Curiosities | I. PlattsScarron now became more decent in his manners and conversation; and his gaiety was thus more agreeable.
The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts
Her first husband was the poet Scarron, at whose death, after a marriage of nine years, she had found herself in poverty.
British Dictionary definitions for Scarron
/ (French skɑrɔ̃) /
Paul (pɔl). 1610–60, French comic dramatist and novelist, noted particularly for his picaresque novel Le Roman comique (1651–57)
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