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2 unusual facts about Hôtel de Rambouillet


Ancient Diocese of Grasse

Bishops of Grasse worthy of mention are: Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio (1537-1648); the poet Antoine Godeau (1636–53), one of the most celebrated habitués of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, where he was nicknamed "Julia's dwarf" on account of his small stature.

Hôtel de Rambouillet

The précieux refinements of the French language would find some codification in the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française eventually published by the Académie française, which found its start in the Hôtel Rambouillet.



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Jean François Sarrazin

As a writer of vers de société he rivalled Voiture, but he was never admitted to the inner circle of the hotel de Rambouillet.