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César Vichard de Saint-Réal
César Vichard de Saint-Réal (1639–1692) was a French polyglot.
He was born in Chambéry, Savoy, but educated in Lyon by the Jesuits. He used to work in the royal library with Antoine Varillas. This French historiographer influenced the way Saint-Réal wrote history. He used to be reader and friend of Hortense Mancini, duchesse de Mazarin, who took him with her to England (1675).
Saint-Réal was a polygraph writer. His works belong
- Madame de Lafayette "Zaïde" (1671)
- Madame de Villedieu "Amour des grands hommes" (1671)
- César Vichard de Saint-Réal "Don Carlos" (1672)
- Madame de Villedieu "Les Désordres de l'amour" (1675)
- Jean de Préchac "L'Héroïne mousquetaire" (1677)
- Jean de Préchac "Le voyage de Fontainebleau" (1678)
- Madame de Lafayette "La Princesse de Clèves" (1678)
- Jean de Préchac "L'Illustre