Scudéry
Americannoun
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Philippe Sellier, a literature professor at Paris IV university, added that Madame de La Fayette, along with the aristocratic writers Madame de Sévigné and Mademoiselle de Scudéry, formed what he called a “feminine avant-garde”.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2017
Pélisson was twenty-nine, and Mademoiselle de Scudéry forty-five, when they first met.
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
The translator, F. G., Esq., erroneously attributes the authorship to "that famous wit of France, Monsieur de Scudéry, Governour of Nostre-Dame."
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
Pellisson, famous for ugliness and for wit, the Acanthe of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, the beloved of Sappho Scudéry, was his chief clerk.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
Scudéry was a soldier and a man of considerable talent, who lacked nothing but patience and the power of self-criticism to produce really good work.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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