Paul Scarron

These stories have a higher tone than the main plot since they tell of past loves among the nobility. As you pass do not make noise here
Be careful not to wake him
Because this is the first night
That poor Scarron slumbers. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition the Virgile travesti "is now thought a somewhat ignoble waste of singular powers for burlesque" and the Roman comique (1651-1657) is Scarron's best work: "This history of a troupe of strolling actors.

July 1610 – October 6 1660) was a French poet dramatist and novelist born in Paris. Scarron was the first husband of Françoise d'Aubigné who later became Madame de Maintenon and secretly married King Louis XIV of France.