Note 492 — Chapter V · SATIRIC REPRESENTATIONS OF THE LEARNED LADY IN COMEDY

Seigneur de Gomberville brought out his Polexandre in four volumes, quarto, in 1632. More famous were La Calprenède's romances, Cléopâtre, Cassandre, and Pharamond, and the works of the Scudéry brother and sister (the sister being the chief writer) who wrote Ibrahim, Artemène, Clélie, and Almahide. All of these except Polexandre were published and some of them republished in France between 1641 and 1661. Their interminable length may be illustrated by Artemène which was in ten volumes, a total of 6679 pages.