Scarron, Paul (1610-1660)

French comic poet, dramatist, and satirist. He wrote a novel about actors, Le Roman comique/The Comical Romance 1651-57. Other works include the burlesque poem Typhon 1644; several comedies, including L'Héritier ridicule 1648 and Dom Japhet d'Armenie 1654; and the much imitated Le Virgile travesti 1648-53, a parody of the Latin epic Aeneid.

Scarron was born in Paris. In 1652 he became acquainted with Françoise d'Aubigné (afterwards Madame de Maintenon), whom he married.