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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin[zhAN dAmArA´ du saN-sOrlaN´] Pronunciation Key, 1595–1676, French poet and dramatist. A protEgE 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-DesprEaux; Boileau attacked him in L'Art poEtique.
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