Scarron

“Destiny” in Scarron’s comical romance (Part ii.chapt. i) and “Jealousy” enfolding Rinaldo.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Françoise's devoted care of Scarron, which did not flag over the eight years that their marriage was to last, suggests that in any case, he did nothing, or asked nothing, that she did not accept.

Louis XIV's Secret Wife 2010

Françoise's devoted care of Scarron, which did not flag over the eight years that their marriage was to last, suggests that in any case, he did nothing, or asked nothing, that she did not accept.

Louis XIV's Secret Wife 2010

Her husband gave her an old law book he had found—a book on evidence—out of which she got not only Martin Guerre but two other engaging historical novels, The Trial of Soren Quist and The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

Her husband gave her an old law book he had found—a book on evidence—out of which she got not only Martin Guerre but two other engaging historical novels, The Trial of Soren Quist and The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

Perhaps that is why the author picked her, as more appealing to modern readers than either Athenais de Montespan or 'the widow Scarron,' Mme de Maintenon.

Mistress of the Sun, by Sandra Gulland. Book review Carla 2009

Butler is as much above Scarron as a man accustomed to good company is above a singer at a pothouse.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Molière does not, like Scarron, go in search of slang terms; his lowest characters do not play the mountebank.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Without you, neither Rotrou, nor Corneille, nor “a wilderness of monkeys” like Scarron, could ever have given Comedy to

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

After twelve years, the king left Athénaïs de Montespan for the poor Widow Scarron, whom Athénaïs had hired to nurse her children with the king.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005