Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Scarron

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Paul Scarron.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Paul Scarron

Paul Scarron was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Though his precise birth date is unknown, he was baptized on 4 July 1610. Scarron was the first husband of Françoise d'Aubigné, who later became Madame de Maintenon and secretly married King Louis XIV of France.

Traveller, let your step be light,
So that sleep these eyes may close,
For poor Scarron, till to-night,
Ne'er was able e'en to doze. — © Paul Scarron
Traveller, let your step be light, So that sleep these eyes may close, For poor Scarron, till to-night, Ne'er was able e'en to doze.
He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies.
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