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-:''[[Baroque literature]], [[comic fiction]]'' 
-Not all fiction from the first half of the century was a wild flight of fancy in far-flung lands and rarefied adventurous love stories. Influenced by the international success of the [[picaresque]] novel from Spain (such as the novel ''[[Lazarillo de Tormes]]''), and by [[Miguel de Cervantes]]'s short story collection ''Exemplary Tales'' (French translations started to appear in 1614) and ''[[Don Quixote de la Mancha]]'' (French translation 1614-1618), the French novelists of the first half of the century also chose to describe and satirize their own era and its excesses. Other important models of satire were provided by [[Fernando de Rojas]]'s ''[[Celestina]]'' and [[John Barclay (1582-1621)|John Barclay]]'s (1582-1621) two satirical works in Latin ''Euphormio sive Satiricon'' (1602) and ''[[Argenis]]'' (1621).+'''''Argenis''''' is a [[book]] by [[John Barclay (1582-1621)]]. It is a work of historical [[allegory]] which tells the story of the religious conflict in France under [[Henry III of France]] and [[Henry IV of France]], and also touches on more contemporary English events, such as the Overbury scandal. The tendency is royalist, anti-aristocratic; it is told from the angle of a king who reduces the landed aristocrats' power in the interest of the "country", the interest of which is identified with that of the king.
-[[Agrippa d'Aubigné]]'s ''Les Aventures du baron de Faeneste'' portrays the rude manners and comic adventures of a Gascon in the royal court. +Originally published in Latin in 1621, King James asked for it to be translated into English. The first such translation was undertaken by [[Ben Jonson]], but his version was lost in a fire which also destroyed many of his other works. Later translations were made by Kingsmill Long (1625), and Robert Le Gruys (1628).
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-[[Charles Sorel]]'s ''[[L'histoire comique de Francion]]'' is a picaresque inspired story of the ruses and amorous dealings of a young gentleman, and his ''Le Berger extravagant'' is a satire of the d'Urfé-inspired pastoral, which (taking a clue from the end of ''Don Quixote'') has a young man take on the life of a shepherd. Despite its "realism", Sorel's works remain, nonetheless, highly baroque with dream sequences and inserted narrations (for example, when Francion tells of his years at school) typical of the adventure novel. This use of inserted stories also follows Cervantes who inserted a number of nearly autonomous stories into his ''Quixote''.+
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-[[Paul Scarron]]'s most famous work, ''Le Roman comique'', uses the narrative frame of a group of ambulant actors in the provinces to present both scenes of farcical comedy and sophisticated inserted tales.+
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-[[Cyrano de Bergerac]] -- made famous by the 19th century play by [[Edmond Rostand]] -- wrote two novels that, sixty years before ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' or Voltaire (not to mention science-fiction), use a journey to magical lands (the moon and the sun) as pretexts for satirizing contemporary philosophy and morals. By the end of the century, Cyrano's works would inspire a number of philosophical novels in which Frenchmen travel to foreign lands and strange utopias.+
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-The early half of the century also saw the continued popularity of the comic short story and collections of humorous discussions, such as in the ''Histoires comiques'' of [[François du Souhait]]; the playful, chaotic, sometimes obscene and almost unreadable ''Moyen de parvenir'' by [[Béroalde de Verville]] (a parody of books of "table talk", of [[Rabelais]] and of [[Michel de Montaigne]]'s ''[[Essays (Montaigne)|The Essays]]''); the anonymous ''Caquets de l'accouchée'' (1622); and [[Molière d'Essertine]]'s ''Semaine amoureuse'' (a collection of short stories).+
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-Select list of baroque comique writers and works:+
-* [[Agrippa d'Aubigné]] (1552-1630)+
-** ''Les Aventures du baron de Faeneste'' (1617, 1619, 1630)+
-* [[Béroalde de Verville]] (1556-1626)+
-** ''Le Moyen de parvenir'' (c.1610)+
-* [[François du Souhait]] (c.1570/80 - 1617)+
-** ''Histoires comiques'' (1612)+
-* [[Molière d'Essertine]] (c.1600 - 1624)+
-** ''Semaine amoureuse'' (1620)+
-* [[Charles Sorel]] (1602-1674)+
-** ''L'histoire comique de Francion'' (1622)+
-** ''Nouvelles françoises'' (1623)+
-** ''Le Berger extravagant'' (1627)+
-* [[Jean de Lannel]] (dates?)+
-** ''Le Roman satyrique'' (1624)+
-* [[Antoine-André Mareschal]] (dates?)+
-** ''La Chrysolite'' (1627)+
-* [[Paul Scarron]] (1610-1660)+
-** ''Virgile travesti'' (1648-53)+
-** ''Le Roman comique'' (1651-57)+
-* [[Cyrano de Bergerac]] (Hector Savinien) (1619-1655)+
-** ''Histoire comique des Etats et Empires de la Lune'' (1657)+
-** ''Histoire comique des Etats et Empires du Soleil'' (1662)+
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-In the latter half of the century, a contemporary setting would be also used in many classical "nouvelles" (or short novels), especially as a form of moral critique of contemporary society.+
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Argenis is a book by John Barclay (1582-1621). It is a work of historical allegory which tells the story of the religious conflict in France under Henry III of France and Henry IV of France, and also touches on more contemporary English events, such as the Overbury scandal. The tendency is royalist, anti-aristocratic; it is told from the angle of a king who reduces the landed aristocrats' power in the interest of the "country", the interest of which is identified with that of the king.

Originally published in Latin in 1621, King James asked for it to be translated into English. The first such translation was undertaken by Ben Jonson, but his version was lost in a fire which also destroyed many of his other works. Later translations were made by Kingsmill Long (1625), and Robert Le Gruys (1628).


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