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Scudéry

[ sky-dey-ree ]

noun

  1. Mag·de·leine de [m, a, g-d, uh, -, len, d, uh], 1607–1701, French novelist.


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Fouquet heard of it, and found means to send, by the hands of Madame Scudéry, a year's allowance to the faithful newsman.

The discourses about this passion recall Suckling's ideas much more than those of Madeleine de Scudéry.

But its indications, otherwise excellent, did not prevent Mlle. de Scudéry from reaching Emnity herself.

The Scudéry books are infinitely duller, and the Richardson ones much less varied.

Mme. d'Aulnoy's run longer; but of course the longest of all are mites to the mammoths of the Scudéry romance.

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