Constantin de Renneville

Rene Auguste Constantin de Renneville , born with Caen the October 9th 1677 and died in the electorate of Hesse the March 13rd 1723, was a author French.

Director of the assistances and fields with Carentan, Constantin de Renneville leaves the France for the Netherlands in 1699 because of his convictions Protesting are. Three years after its return, having composed of the worms against Louis XIV and Philippe V, he is denounced as spy and is imprisoned with the Bastille where there remain eleven years until in 1713. The series of Poem S, called Otia bastiliaca , which it wrote in margin of a specimen of Auteurs disguised (Paris, 1690) during his imprisonment have redécouverts by James Tregaski in 1906.

Released thanks to the intervention of Anne of England, it goes England where it reports its captivity under the title of Histoire of the Bastille (5 volumes, 1713 - 24), dedicated to George I {{er}} and which will be translated into English, Dutch and Italian. Another of its works of importance is the Recueil of the voyages which were used for the establishment of the Company of the Indies Orientales to the Plain Provinces (10 volumes, Rouen, 1725). With its death, he was commander of Artillerie to the service of the voter of Hesse.

Works

  • the Francoise enquiry: or, history of the Bastille , Amsterdam: B. Lakeman; Leide: J. & H. Verbeek, 1724
  • Supplement with the history of the enquiry Francoise or the Bastille , Amsterdam: Etienne Roger, 1719
  • Recueil of the voiages which were used with the establishment & progress of the Company of the Indies Orientales, formed in the United Provinces of Feed-Low , Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1725
  • Canticles of the Scriptures paraphrased in sonnets , Amsterdam, Etienne Roger, 1703
  • Psalms of Penitence paraphrased in sonnets , $the Hague, 1715
  • free Poem in verse for the day of the happy birth of S.A.S.M. Charles, Landgrave of Hesse , Cassel 1722
  • spiritual Works container various Christian poetries , Amsterdam, 1725
  • Anecdotes Low Normans , 1724, rééd. by Paul Cacheux, Évreux, Impr. of the Eure, 1899

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