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Jean Chapelain

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Chapelain , 1595-1674, French critic and poet. His works include La Pucelle (1656), an epic poem about Joan of Arc. Chapelain was a founding member of the French Academy, for which he composed a celebrated attack upon Pierre Corneille's Le Cid. Author not available, CHAPELAIN, JEAN. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Pierre Corneille
...based on a Spanish play about the Cid , took Paris by storm; beautiful as the Cid became a French proverb. However, Jean Chapelain composed a paper for the newly founded French Academy that attacked the play as plagiaristic and faulty in construction... Read more
Catherine de Vivonne Rambouillet, marquise de
...Mlle de Scudéry, the duchesse de Longueville, the duchesse de Montpensier, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Corneille, Richelieu, Malherbe, Racan, Voiture, Bossuet, Chapelain, Scarron, Vaugelas, and La Rochefoucauld. The conversation and literary criticism... Read more

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IDEOLOGY, CULTURE AND THE THREAT OF ALLEGORY IN CHAPELAIN'S THEORY OF LA VRAISEMBLANCE.
; ...lecture [de l'Adonis] achevee, Chapelain dit que le sujet etait mal...public. --Theophile Gautier(1) Jean Chapelain's Preface to Adonis (1623...young and relatively unknown Chapelain seized the opportunity to...poem in any detail, however, Chapelain sets aside the Adonis after... Read more
Historical article: Mesmeric anesthesia: The case of Madam Plantin
; ...Her personal physician, Dr. Jean Pierre Chapelain, treated her by applying mesmerism...1829. The surgeon agreed with Chapelain that Madam Plantin should be...performed on April 12, 1829. Chapelain induced mesmeric state on the... Read more

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