sentences:  His verse-writing early won the interest of a relative in Paris, Valentin Conrart, at whose house the literary world gathered.The outcome of these meetings was the foundation of the Académie française, of which Godeau was one of the first members and the third whose lot it fell to deliver the weekly address to that body.He was induced to settle in Paris, where he soon became a favorite at the Hôtel de Rambouillet, rivalling the famous writers of his period.