Note 15 — PREFACE
George Fyler Townsend translation
(return) [ Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludicrâ Dictione” was written A.D. 1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers. Francisci Vavassoris opera omnia. Amsterdam. 1709.]