Desmarets De Saint-sorlin, Jean
Related Category: French Literature: Biographies
(zhäN dāmärā´ də săN-sôrlăN´), 1595–1676, French poet and dramatist. A protégé of Richelieu, he was a founding member of the French Academy. In 1670 he precipitated a controversy over the literary merits of the ancients that foreshadowed the polemics of
Perrault and
Boileau-Despréaux; Boileau attacked him in
L'Art poétique.
