Madeleine de Scudéry

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MS is the most famous of the seventeenth-century French authors of heroic romances: fictions of great length, which centred on the lives, loves, and philosophical disquisitions of aristocratic characters. She also wrote poetry and letters.
Oval head-and-shoulders engraving of Madeleine de Scudéry by Charles Devrits, from his "Poètes normands: portraits gravés", 1845. She wears a jewelled brooch at her low V-neck, a string of pearls, and a dark shawl wrapped around her. Her dark curly hair is partly tied back, partly in ringlets around her face.

Milestones

15 November 1607
MS , writer of heroic romance, was born at Le Havre in Normandy; she was one of two surviving children in her family.
Her baptism at Notre Dame de Le Havre is recorded as 1 December 1608, which casts some doubt on this birthdate, but all biographies agree on the 1607 date.
McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972.
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Scudéry, Madeleine de. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Editors Rathery et Boutron, Edme Jacques Benoît and Boutron, L. Techener, 1873.
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January 1649-1653
MS published at Paris (under her brother 's name and in successive volumes) her most famous romance, Artamène; ou, Le grand Cyrus.
McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Scudéry, Madeleine de. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Editors Rathery et Boutron, Edme Jacques Benoît and Boutron, L. Techener, 1873.
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2 June 1701
MS , leading exponent of the multi-volume heroic romance or roman de longue haleine, died in Paris.
McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972.
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Scudéry, Madeleine de. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Editors Rathery et Boutron, Edme Jacques Benoît and Boutron, L. Techener, 1873.
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Biography

Birth and Background

15 November 1607
MS , writer of heroic romance, was born at Le Havre in Normandy; she was one of two surviving children in her family.
Her baptism at Notre Dame de Le Havre is recorded as 1 December 1608, which casts some doubt on this birthdate, but all biographies agree on the 1607 date.
McDougall, Dorothy. Madeleine de Scudéry. Benjamin Blom, 1972.
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Scudéry, Madeleine de. Mademoiselle de Scudéry. Editors Rathery et Boutron, Edme Jacques Benoît and Boutron, L. Techener, 1873.
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