Family tree of Alain-René LESAGE

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French Born Alain-René LESAGE

French novelist and playwright

Born on May 08, 1668 in Sarzeau, France , France

Died on November 17, 1747 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

Born on may 08 54

Deceased on november 17 34

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RUFFAUD

Pierre Maitre

- 1610

GUILBOT

Julienne

BRENUGAT

Jehan

1560 - 1634

CHESNAYS

Jeanne

- 1626

LE SAULNIER

René Maitre

MOULNIER

Françoise

LESAGE de KERBISTOUL

Jacques

1600 - 1663

RUFFAUD

Honorable Femme Marguerite

BRENUGAT SEIGNEUR de LA COSSAIS

Pierre ,

1599 - 1639

LE SAULNIER

Suzane

1610 -

LESAGE de KERBISTOUL

Claude

1637 - 1682

BRENUGAT

Jeanne

1626 - 1677

LESAGE de KERBISTOUL

Alain René

1668 - 1747

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Claude Lesage, the father of the novelist, held the united positions of advocate, notary and registrar of the royal court in Rhuys. His mother's name was Jeanne Brenugat. Both Lesage's father and mother died when Lesage was very young, and he was left in the care of his uncle who wasted his education and fortune. Père Bochard, of the Order of the Jesuits, Principal of the College in Vannes, became interested in the boy on account of his natural talents. Bochard cultivated Lesage's taste for literature. At age 25, Lesage went to Paris in 1693 "to pursue his philosophical studies".

In August 1694, he married the daughter of a joiner, Marie Elizabeth Huyard. She was beautiful but had no fortune, and Lesage had little practice. About this time he encountered an old schoolfellow, the dramatist Antoine Danchet, who is said to have advised him to take up literature. He began as a translator, and published in 1695 a French version of the Epistles of Aristaenetus, which was not successful. Shortly afterwards he found a valuable patron and adviser in the Abbé de Lyonne, who bestowed on him an annuity of 600 livres, and recommended him to exchange the classics for Spanish literature, of which he was himself a student and collector. Spanish literature was once very popular in France when the queens of the house of Austria sat upon the throne, but had become neglected by Lesage's time.

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