Pierre sorel biography

French writer

Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny (c.&#; &#; 7 March ) was a French novelist and general writer.

Life

Very little is known of his life except that in he was historiographer of France. He wrote on science, history and religion, but is only remembered for his novels.

Pierre sorel biography

He tried to destroy the vogue for the pastoral romance by writing a novel of adventure, the Histoire comique de Francion (first edition in seven volumes, ; second edition in twelve volumes, ). The episodical adventures of Francion found many readers, who nevertheless kept their admiration for Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée, which it was intended to ridicule.

Sorel decided to make his intention unmistakable, and in Le Berger extravagant (3 vols, ) he wrote a burlesque, in which a Parisian shop-boy, his head turned by sentiment, chooses an unprepossessing mistress and starts life as a shepherd with a dozen sheep on the banks of the Seine.

Sorel did not succeed in