Antoine Baudeau, sieur de Somaize (born c. 1630) was a secretary to
Marie Mancini
Anna Maria (Marie) Mancini (28 August 1639 – 8 May 1715) was the third of the five Mancini sisters; nieces to Cardinal Mazarin who were brought to France to marry advantageously. Along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, the Mancini ...
, niece of
Cardinal Mazarin
Cardinal Jules Mazarin (, also , , ; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino () or Mazarini, was an Italian cardinal, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XI ...
. He published a ''Grand Dictionnaire des
Prétieuses, ou La Clef de la Langue des Ruelles'' in 1660; a much enlarged edition was published in 1661. The same year he published a comedy, ''Le Procez des prétieuses, en vers burlesques''.
Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Château d'Oron
.
See also
*Hôtel de Rambouillet
The Hôtel de Rambouillet, formerly the Hôtel de Pisani, was the Paris residence of Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, who ran a renowned literary salon there from 1620 until 1648. It was situated on the west side of the rue Saint-T ...
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Further reading
* Duchêne, Roger ''Les précieuses, ou, Comment l'esprit vint aux femmes''
External links
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Selected entries from ''Le Grand Dictionnaire des Précieuses''
(French)
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1630s births
1680s deaths
17th-century French male writers
17th-century French dramatists and playwrights