Marie Dupré (1650 – 1700) was a seventeenth century French poet and scholar. Marie Dupré was the related to the poet

Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Jean Desmarets, Sieur de Saint-Sorlin (1595 – 28 October 1676) was a French writer and dramatist. He was a founding member, and the first to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1634. Biography Born in Paris, Desmarets was introduced ...

of the French Academy and niece of Roland Desmarets. Dupré intended to follow her families traditions and was lucky that her uncles, a lawyer and a man of letters, were able to assist her. She was taught Latin, Italian, Greek, rhetoric, poetics and philosophy. Dupré studied Descartes and had a quick wit. Her ability to argue her point with such application garnered her the nickname "La Cartésienne". Dupré was friends with

Madeleine de Scudéry Madeleine de Scudéry (15 November 1607 – 2 June 1701), often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. Her works also demonstrate such comprehensive knowledge of ancient history that it is suspected she had received inst ...

and

Anne de La Vigne Anne de La Vigne (1634–1684) was a French poet and natural philosopher who was a follower of René Descartes. Life She was born in Vernon, Normandy in 1634. Her father was the French physician Michel de La Vigne. She died in Paris at the ...

. She spoke good Italian and wrote French verse. Dupré is the author of the ''Responses of Isis to Climene'' from the Collection of verses published by

Dominique Bouhours Dominique Bouhours (15 May 162827 May 1702) was a French Jesuit Catholic priest, priest, essayist, Linguist, grammarian, and neo-classical critic. He was born and died in Paris. Life Bouhours entered the Society of Jesus at the age of sixteen, ...

Évrard Titon du Tillet Évrard Titon du Tillet (January 1677 – 26 December 1762) is best known for his important biographical chronicle, ''Le Parnasse françois'', composed of brief anecdotal ''vite'' of famous French poets and musicians of his time, under the reign of ...

included Dupré in the list of ladies who he felt deserved praise. She was well known and admired within the French Salon of the day.

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1650 births 1700 deaths French women poets 17th-century French women writers 17th-century French poets {{France-poet-stub