Charles Sorel, L'histoire comique de Francion [The Comical History of Francion]

Adrien Mangili (University of Geneva)

Ed. by Polly Mangerson, DePaul University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.03: French Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century: Classical and Baroque, 1600-1700.
Vol. editors: Heather Kirk (University of Western Ontario), Kathrina LaPorta (New York University), Polly Mangerson (DePaul University), Julia Prest (University of St Andrews), Allison Stedman (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1622

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel
Picaresque

Resources

See our entry on the Picaresque novel for more information.

Charles Sorel’s comic novel L’Histoire comique de Francion [The Comical History of Francion, 2005] (1623, 1626, 1633) was one of the most republished texts in France during the seventeenth century. Although the Francion enjoyed an immediate and massive success at the time of its publication and was one of the most reprinted works of its century, this work subsequently disappeared during the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. This disappearance was arguably due to the Francion’s style, which did not correspond to the aesthetic …

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Citation: Mangili, Adrien. "L'histoire comique de Francion". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 February 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14838, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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