Antoine Baudeau de Somaize
French writer
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| Intro | French writer | |
| Places | France | |
| is | Writer Playwright | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | |
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Antoine Baudeau, sieur de Somaize (born c. 1630) was a secretary to Marie Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin. He published a Grand Dictionnaire des Prétieuses, ou La Clef de la Langue des Ruelles in 1660; a much enlarged edition was published in 1661. The same year he published a comedy, Le Procez des prétieuses, en vers burlesques.