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    "verified_text": "boursault, edme (1638-1701), french dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was born at mussy l'eveque, now mussy-sur-seine (aube), in october 1638. on his first arrival in paris in 1651 his language was limited to a burgundian patois, but within a year he produced his first comedy, _le mort vivant_. this and some other pieces of small merit secured for him distinguished patronage in the society ridiculed by moliere in the _ecole des femmes_. boursault was persuaded that the \"lysidas\" of that play was a caricature of himself, and attacked moliere in _le portrait du peintre ou la contre-critique de l'ecole des femmes_ (1663). moliere retaliated in _l'impromptu de versailles_, and boileau attacked boursault in satires 7 and 9. boursault replied to boileau in his _satire des satires_ (1669), but was afterwards reconciled with him, when boileau on his side erased his name from his satires. boursault obtained a considerable pension as editor of a rhyming gazette, which was, however, suppressed for ridiculing a capuchin friar, and the editor was only saved from the bastille by the interposition of conde. in 1671 he produced a work of edification in _ad usum delphini: la veritable etude des souverains_, which so pleased the court that its author was about to be made assistant tutor to the dauphin when it was found that he was ignorant of greek and latin, and the post was given to pierre huet. perhaps in compensation boursault was made collector of taxes at mont-lucon about 1672, an appointment that he retained until 1688. among his best-known plays are _le mercure galant_, the title of which was changed to _la comedie sans titre_ (1683); _la princesse de cleves_ (1676), an unsuccessful play which, when refurbished with fresh names by its author, succeeded as _germanicus; esope a la ville_ (1690); and _esope a la cour_ (1701). his lack of dramatic instinct could hardly be better indicated than by the scheme of his _esope_, which allows the fabulist to come on the stage in each scene and recite a fable. boursault died in paris on the 15th of september 1701. the _oeuvres choisies_ of boursault were published in 1811, and a sketch of him is to be found in m. saint-rene taillandier's _etudes litteraires_ (1881). bourse (from the med. lat. _bursa_, a purse), the french equivalent of the stock exchange, and so used of the paris exchange, or of any foreign money-market. the english form \"burse,\" as in sir thomas gresham's building, which was known as \"britain's burse,\" went out of use in the 18th century. the origin of the name is doubtful; it is not derived from any connexion between purse and money, but rather from the use of a purse as a sign. at bruges a house belonging to the family de bursa is said to have been first used as an exchange, and to have had three purses as a sign on the front.",
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