Charles Auguste of Fare

Charles Auguste, marquis of Fare , count de Laugères, baron de Balasuc, is a poet and memorialist French born with Valgorge in the Vivarais in 1644 and died with Paris in 1712.

Captain of the bodyguards of Philippe of Orleans, it entered the military career initially and was used with distinction under the marshal of Turenne, of which he became the friend, during the programs as 1667 and 1674. A competition in love with Louvois, Secretary of State to the War, in connection with Madam de Rochefort, led it to leave the service.

It éprit of Marguerite of the Sand pit then broke with her in 1679. After a short passion for the famous actress the Champmeslé, it lived then as an epicurean, lazy and amateur of good expensive: it was, known as Chaulieu, “ formed of feelings and pleasure, filled of pleasant mollesse ”.

Its worms, gracious and easy, are with its image. They sing the charms of the rest and the pleasure of the satisfied instinct and, according to their author, were composed by recreation and without seeking them:

Présents of the only nature,

Amusements of my leisure,
easy Vers by which I make sure
Less glory than of pleasure,
Coulez, children of my idleness.
But so initially one cherishes you,
Refusez you with this happiness:
Dites that escaped of my vein,
By chance, without force and sorrow,
You deserve this honor little.

It composed the booklet of an opera, Panthée , whose duke of Orleans made the music. Its Poésies was joined together in volume in 1755. Its Memories on the principal events of the reign of Louis XIV (1715), is precise and full with smoothness.

He married, on November 3rd 1684, Jeanne de Lux of which he had four children:

References

External bond

  • Genealogy of the house of Fare on the armorial of the country of Oc

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