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François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac

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In choosing subjects for his plays, d'Aubignac seems to have been guided by a desire to illustrate the various kinds of tragedy—patriotic, antique and religious themes. In return, the dramatic authors whom he was in the habit of criticizing were quick to take advantage of the opportunity for
402:'s nephews, the duc de Fronsac. This patronage secured for him the abbeys of Aubignac and of Mainac. The death of the duc de Fronsac in 1646 put an end to hopes of further preferment, and Ambroise Paréd'Aubignac retired to Nemours, occupying himself with literature till his death. 591: 638: 556: 371: 460:
It is as a theorist that d'Aubignac is still remembered. The credit of having been the first to play so large a part in the history of the French stage belongs to
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The father of François Hédelin was Claude Hédelin, a lawyer at the Parliament, and his mother Catherine Paré, the daughter of the famous surgeon
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was written with the intention of affording a model in which the strict rules of the drama, as understood by the theorists, were served.
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He energetically participated in the literary controversies of his time. Against
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Conjectures académiques ou dissertation sur l'Iliade d'Homère
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retaliation offered by the production of these plays.
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