Le Roman Comique by Paul Scarron
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"Le Roman Comique" by Paul Scarron is a novel published in two parts in 1651 and 1657. A traveling theater troupe arrives in Le Mans, launching a series of comic and adventurous escapades. The narrative weaves between present-day theatrical mishaps and embedded tales of love and intrigue, including the romantic flight of Garrigues and Mlle de La Boissière. At its center is Ragotin, a vain and ridiculous dwarf whose farcical misadventures provide
comic relief. Scarron died while working on the third part, leaving this vibrant portrait of seventeenth-century theatrical life unfinished. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Scarron, Paul, 1610-1660 |
|---|---|
| Annotator | Fournel, Victor, 1829-1894 |
| Title | Le Roman Comique |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roman_comique |
| Credits |
Produced by Carlo Traverso, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French fiction -- 17th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 27772 |
| Release Date | Jan 11, 2009 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 674 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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