Le Berger extravagant
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Le Berger extravagant[1] (1633) by Charles Sorel.
In Le Berger extravagant (3 vols, 1627) Sorel wrote a burlesque, in which a Parisian shop-boy, his head turned by sentiment, chooses an unprepossessing mistress and starts life as a shepherd with a dozen sheep on the banks of the Seine. Sorel did not succeed in founding the novel of character, and what he accomplished was more in the direction of farce, but he struck a shrewd blow at heroic romances.
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