François Carpenter

Its life and its work

He undertakes studies of right, which he forsakes in favor of the letters. He makes known himself by his translation of Xénophon, to which he adds a Vie of Socrate , and he is elected member of the French Academy in 1650. During fifty-two years, it will attend almost all the meetings of the Academy. Its “vehement” eloquence will be worth to him to make sixteen speeches there and to accommodate there eight new academicians, among whom Bossuet and the Heather. It will write also the foreword of the '' Dictionnaire '' of the Academy. With Charles Perrault, it lines up side of “modern” in the Querelle of Old and Modern the and makes appear some lampoons which Boileau answers by perfidious attacks, such this epigram where it is caught some with his stoutness:

do you Blame Perrault to condemn Homère

Virgile, Aristote, Plato?

doesn't it have with him Mister his brother

Caligula, Néron

And the large Carpenter, one says?

In 1663, Colbert, which is on the point of founding the Compagnie of the Indies Orientales, request with François Charpentier to write a speech in order to “give to all France an advantageous idea of this establishment” In reward, Colbert made of him one of the first members of the Académie of the Inscriptions, whose vocation first is of glorifier the reign of Louis XIV by means of emblems, of allegories and currencies. When it is a question of deciding language of the inscriptions, Charpentier, who will publish in 1683 a work entitled Of the Excellence of the language Francoise , decides against Latin in favor of French. However, when it is charged to add legends to the tables of Brown the with the Château of Versailles, its efforts are considered to be so poor that they will be replaced by worms of Racine and of Boileau. It takes part in addition in the creation of the medals commemorating the principal events of the century of Louis XIV.

Works

memorable Things of Socrate, work of Xénophon, translated of Greek into a Francois, with the Life of Socrate, lately made up and collected more famous autheurs of Antiquity (1650)
Cyropaedie, or History of Cyrus, translated from the Greek of Xénophon (1659)
Speech of a faithful subject of the king touching the establishment of a French company for the trade of the Eastern Indies . Also appeared under the title: the Divine merchant, relation of the constitution of the French Company of the Eastern Indies (1664)
Defense of the Francoise language for the inscription of the triumphal arch dedicated to Roy (1676). Text on line: * Of the Excellence of the language Francoise (2 volumes, 1683). Text on line: * Treated speaking painting, Explanation of the tables of the Gallery of Versailles (1684)
Newspaper of the voyage of the Chardin knight in Persia and in the Eastern Indies (1686). Revision by Carpenter of the text of Jean Chardin.
the Dictionary of the Francoise Academy, dedicated to Roy (2 volumes, 1694). Carpenter is the author of the Foreword. Text on line: * Carpentariana, or Collection of historical thoughts, critical, moral, and of witty remarks, Mr. Charpentier (1724)

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