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Nov 01, 1620 Lyon, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France Died on 01 Mar 1680 (aged 59)
French playwright
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About Michel De Pure
- Michel de Pure, abbott, (Lyon, 1620 – Paris, March 1680) was chaplain and adviser to King Louis XIV of France (named as such in 1647).
- Author, translator, he notably wrote a manual on dancing as well as books criticizing the development of préciosité.
- He was also appointed historiographer of France in 1653. His name, more than the character, remains attached to the mockery which Nicolas Boileau covered him with.
- However, in his day, he was recognized for his scholarship.If Michel de Pure was best known for his valuable book on dance and ballets de cour of his time, Idée des spectacles anciens et nouveaux (Paris, Michel Brunet, 1668), we now know, thanks to the research work of Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard and Daniel Maher, that he also was one of the first authors of science fiction novels, Épigone, histoire du siècle futur (1659), recognized as "the first true uchrony".
