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Jean-louis Guez De BalzacJean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594 - February 18, 1654) was a French author. Life He was born at Angoulme. At the age of eighteen he travelled in the United Provinces with Thophile de Viaud, with whom he later exchanged bitter recriminations. His letters to his acquaintances and to important courtiers gained him a great reputation. Compliments were showered on him, and he became an habitu of the Hotel de Rambouillet. In 1624 a collection of his Lettres was published, and was received with great favour. From the chateau of Balzac, where he had retired, he continued to correspond with Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and others. In 1634 Balzac was elected to the Acadmie franaise. He died at Angoulme twenty years later. Works His fame rests chiefly upon the Lettres, a second collection of which appeared in 1636. Recueil de nouvelles lettres was printed in the next year. His letters, though empty and affected in matter, show a real mastery of style, introducing a new clearness and precision into French prose and encouraging the development of the language on national lines by emphasizing its most idiomatic elements. Baizac has thus the credit of executing in French prose a reform parallel to Francois de Malherbe's in verse. In 1631 he published an eulogy of King Louis XIII of France entitled Le Prince; in 1652 the Socrate chrtien, and Aristippe ou de la Cour in 1658. Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de
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