TY - BOOK AU - Scarron,Paul AU - Fournel,Victor TI - Le Roman Comique AV - PQ PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French fiction -- 17th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roman_comique; Release date is 2009-01-11; Produced by Carlo Traverso, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Le Roman Comique" by Paul Scarron is a novel published in two parts in 1651 and 1657. A traveling theater troupe arrives in Le Mans, launching a series of comic and adventurous escapades. The narrative weaves between present-day theatrical mishaps and embedded tales of love and intrigue, including the romantic flight of Garrigues and Mlle de La Boissière. At its center is Ragotin, a vain and ridiculous dwarf whose farcical misadventures provide comic relief. Scarron died while working on the third part, leaving this vibrant portrait of seventeenth-century theatrical life unfinished. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27772 ER -