Balthazar Baro

Balthazar Baro , born with Valence in 1596 and died in Paris in 1650, is a poet, novelist and dramatic author French.

Its life and its work

Wire of one professor at the university of Valence, it makes its studies with the Tournon-on-Rhone then in Valence, where it obtains the title of doctor in right in 1615. Become secretary of Honore of Urfé, that he knew certainly with Tournon where they attended the same college, he publishes Astrée , novel of adventures that the death of its author left unfinished, and gives him a continuation, made up according to the memories of its Master, in 1628. Come with Paris, he attends Madam de Chevreuse, enemy sworn Richelieu, but the immense success of Astrée opens to him nevertheless the doors of the French Academy in 1636. After having been gentleman of Miss de Montpensier, it occupies towards the end of its life two employment, that of prosecutor to the présidial of Valence and that of treasurer of France with Montpellier.

The work of Balthazar Baro includes/understands moreover four dramatic poems, three tragedies, two odes, pastoral and a heroic poem. This last, Célinde , appeared in 1629, are composed of five acts in prose in the medium of which the author introduces a passage of approximately three hundred worms evoking the tragedy of Holopherne, which would constitute the first appearance in the French literature of the “Théâtre in the theater”. However, if one believes Paul Pellisson of it, “its larger and its principal work is the Conclusion of Astrée , where it seems to be inspired by the genius of his Master”.

In its Cyrano , Edmond Rostand evoked, to make fun about it, a representation of Clorise of Baro. It takes place with the Hôtel of Burgundy, where one attends in the room the following dialog:

LE YOUNG HOMME (with his/her father) - What will us be played?

LE BOURGEOIS - Clorise .
LE YOUNG HOMME - which is this?
LE BOURGEOIS - Of Mr Balthazar Baro. It is a part!

Works

  • Astrée of Lord Honore d' Urfé (1618-28) (5 volumes)
  • Célinde, poem heroic (1629)
  • Clorise, pastoral (1632)
  • Against the author of one makes out, ode for Monseigneur the éminentissime cardinal duke of Richelieu (1637)
  • Parthénie, dedicated to Miss (1642)
  • Clarimonde, dedicated to the Queen (1643)
  • the fugitive Prince, poëme dramatic in five acts in worms (1649)
  • Sainct Eustace martyr, poëme dramatic (1649)
  • Driver, or Charms of the beauty, poëme dramatic (1651)
  • Rosemonde, tragedy (1651)
  • Amante vindicatory, poëme dramatic (1652)

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