 In this theory, it was there that he was introduced to his cousin Pierre, with whom, according to Le Bret, he would build a lasting friendship.He continued his secondary studies at an academy which remains unknown.It has long been maintained that he attended the Collège de Beauvais where the action of the comedy "Le pédant joué" takes place and whose principal, Jean Grangier would inspire the character of Granger, the pedant of "Le pédant joué", but his presence in June 1641 as a student of rhetoric at the "Collège de Lisieux" (see below), has encouraged more recent historians to revise that opinion.