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Alain Rene Lesage Quotes
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
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| Birth: | 6th May, 1668 |
| Death: | 17th November, 1747 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Novelist, Playwright |
About
Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret 1709, and his picaresque novel Gil Blas. Born in Brittany, Alain René Lesage went to Paris to study and practice law, soon abandoning this first career for a literary vocation which made him entirely dependent on his pen, with the distinction of being perhaps the first French writer to support himself and his family solely by the pursuit of letters. The early years of his career were given over to hackwork and translations from Spanish theater and romance. Lesage was in fact approaching middle age when, in 1707, he experienced his first personal successes with the comedy Crispin rival de son maître and a novel, Le Diable boiteux, inspired by Antonio de Guevara's Diablo conjuelo.
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