SIMON-JOSEPH PELLEGRIN
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A French dramatist; born at Marseilles, 1663; died at Paris, 1745. Among his works are: "Polydorus", a tragedy (1705); "Death of Ulysses" (1706); "The New World", comedy (1723); "Divorce of Love and Reason" (1724); "Pastor Fido" (1726); "Hymen's School; or, Her Husband's Sweetheart" (1742). He wrote also a great many religious poems.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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