Word: scarron
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...Comme le pélican du-désert. Over on the Right Bank that same afternoon the editors of the newspaper Parisien Libéré were awarding its Prix de la Vérité to a book reporting bad conditions in French hospitals. The Prix Scarron for books of humor went to Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and Frank Gilbreth Jr. for their Treize à la douzaine (Cheaper by the Dozen). The prize, which is supposed to be 500 gold écus, was paid off this year in 500 ten-franc aluminum pieces, all in a spirit of high...
Where up to this time such writers as Corneille and Scarron had tried to improve upon nature, Moliere in these two plays represents nature exactly as he sees it. His strict interpretation of nature, his nationality, and his boldness in introducing a new element at once made Moliere one of the influential...
...understand, then," said I, "that anything, from Rabelais to Scarron, may be read and conned eight hours of the day, within these walls, by any lad of fifteen, and yet not read, outside, by any man under eighty. Here are your books; take them back to their alcoves to be purified by the dust of ages and dog-eared by interested youth. Well, can you give me Praed's poems...
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