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Alain-René Lesage (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ ʁəne ləsaʒ]; 6 May 1668 – 17 November 1747; older spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707, Le Diable boiteux ), his comedy Turcaret (1709), and his picaresque novel Gil Blas (1715–1735).
Gil Blas (French: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane [listwaʁ də ʒil blɑ də sɑ̃tijan]) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735.It was highly popular, and was translated several times into English, most notably by Tobias Smollett in 1748 as The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane.
Gilbert Robert Louis Lesage (19 May 1910 – 7 November 1989) was a Quaker charity worker and philanthropist who helped refugees before the Second World War and was responsible clandestinely for saving the lives of many Jews in southern France while working as the head of the Social Department for Aliens under the Vichy regime.
Gil Blas (or Le Gil Blas) was a Parisian literary periodical named for Alain-René Lesage's novel Gil Blas. It was founded by the sculptor Augustin-Alexandre Dumont in November 1879. Gil Blas serialized novels, such as Émile Zola 's Germinal (1884) and L'Œuvre (1885), before they appeared in book form.
An abenteuerroman is Germany's version of the picaresque novel; it is an "entertaining story of the adventures of the hero, but there is also often a serious aspect to the story." [27] Alain-René Le Sage's Gil Blas (1715) is a classic example of the genre, [28] which in France had declined into an aristocratic adventure.
Lesage, LeSage, or Le Sage may refer to: Lesage (surname), including a list of people with the name Lesage, LeSage or Le Sage Alain-René Lesage (1668-1747), author of Gil Blas; Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724–1803), scientist Le Sage's theory of gravitation; Maison Lesage, a French couture embroidery atelier; Lesage, West Virginia, a place in ...
LeSage also was president of Marquette University's Campus Circle initiative from 1991 to 1995. It focused on high-profile residential and commercial development near campus − in part to help ...
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