Urfé

British

/ urfe /

noun

Honoré d' (ɔnɔre d). 1568–1625, French writer, whose pastoral L'Astrée (1607–27) is considered the first French novel

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All reminds us of the Calprenède, of Urfé, or Scudéri herself.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Further "lights" are given by the selection of the "Immortal Heliodorus" and "the great Urfé" as patterns and patrons of the work.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

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