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| Chapelain, Jean |
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(zhäN shäpl N´) (KEY) , 15951674, French critic and poet. His works include La Pucelle (1656), an epic poem about Joan of Arc. Chapelain was a founding member of the French Academy, for which he composed a celebrated attack upon Pierre Corneilles Le Cid. |
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