title: Sallebray
text: # Sallebray
  
  Monsieur (de) Sallebray (or Salbray, whose first name is unknown) was a 17th-century French poet and playwright.
  
  He may have been a bedroom valet of King Louis XIV and published five theatre plays and some poems.
  
  ## Works
  
  * ~ 1635: Description de la belle chapelle de la maison royale de Fontainebleau, ode.
  * 1639: Le Jugement de Pâris et le ravissement d'Hélène, tragicomedy (text on Gallica)
  * 1640: La Troade, tragedy (text on Gallica)
  * 1642: L'Amante ennemie, tragicomedy (text on Gallica)
  * 1642: La Belle Égyptienne, tragicomedy (text on Gallica)
  * 1639: L'Enfer divertissant, comedy
  * 1660: Épigramme du songe du resveur
  
  ## Quote
  
  In his catalogue of the Bibliothèque dramatique de Monsieur de Soleinne (n° 1177), Paul Lacroix writes: "There's something of Corneille in this author, to whom Corneille sometimes borrows thoughts and verse. This response by Andromaque to Ulysse (La Troade) is sublime: Threat me to live and not to die.
  
  