Claude of Estoile

Claude of Estoile (1602 with Paris - May 1652) is a dramatic author and French poet.

Third wire of Pierre of Estoile which he inherits fortune, he is devoted entire to poetry and the humanities and becomes one of the first members of the French Academy in 1634. He is the author of odes and stanzas as well as two plays, the beautiful slave , tragi-comedy published in 1643, and the Intrigue of the swindlers , comedy published in 1644. A third part, the Secretary of Saint-Innocent , remained unfinished. It in addition produced two ballets, the Ballet of the happy shipwreck and Maistre Galimathias , represented in front of the king in 1626, and it also collaborated with François Métel de Boisrobert, Pierre Corneille, Jean Rotrou and Guillaume Colletet with the parts known as “of the five authors”, the Blind man of Smyrna and the Comedy of the Tileries , played in 1638.

Paul Pellisson has said of him that “when it avoit made up work, it lisoit with its maidservant (like one says also Malherbe) for connoître if it avoit well succeeded, believer that worms swage not their whole perfection, if they do not étoient filled of a certain beauty, who is felt with the people even hardest, & coarsest. It étoit of a complexing extraordinarily carried to the love, & this passion made almost all the disorders & all the evils of its life. It travailloit with an extraordinary care, & passed by again hundred times on the same things; from there comes that we have if few works of him. ”

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