François Hédelin

François Hédelin , abbot of Aubignac and Meymac (Paris, August 4th 1604 - Nemours, July 25th 1676), is a Dramaturge and theorist French of the Théâtre.

Biography

Wire of Claude Hédelin, lawyer at the Parliament, and of Catherine Paré, girl of the famous surgeon Ambroise Paré by his mother, François Hédelin was initially intended for the bar. After having completed its studies, he followed the lawyer occupation with Nemours, where his/her father had bought the load of general lieutenant. He gave up soon the bar for the ecclesiastical state, and became tutor of the duke of Fronsac, nephew of the Cardinal of Richelieu.

Little time after, François Hédelin was provided with the Abbaye Aubignac (of which the name remained to him), then of that of Meymac. The pupil, become major, made with his Master a pension of 4.000 books, for which of Aubignac had a lawsuit to support after the death of the duke, in 1646. This death was, for the abbot of Aubignac, a love at first sight which made him lose the thoughts of the fortune and the pleasures of the life. It however continued to deal with literature. On the end of its days, it was withdrawn in Nemours, where it died the July 25th 1676.

Literary quarrels

It was delivered to the literature, and was in relation to the most beautiful spirits of its time. Impassioned literature he wrote some novels and Tragédie S ( the Maid of Orleans , Zénobie , Sainte Catherine , Erixene , Palene , Terence justified ). He is mainly known to have built the Règle of the three units for the traditional Théâtre and by his quarrels with Pierre Corneille, of which he tackled the tragedies, and with Ménage, against which he published Terence justified . On both sides, one published epigrams and booklets. The epigrams were not collected; the booklets still remain. He supported one of the first that Homère is a chimerical character, and that the poems that one allots to him are only one collection of detached pieces.

The booklet which the abbot of Aubignac made print against Ménage is entitled: justified Terence, or two Essays on the third comedy of Terence, entitled: Heautontimorumenos, against the errors of Mr. Gilles Spares, lawyer at the Parliament , Paris, 1656, in-4°. It contains the booklet published before sixteen years, under the title of Terence justified , at the time of a conversation between Ménage and of Aubignac. This last, which had given some councils to Pierre Corneille, praised it everywhere, and in praise in its Pratique Theater spoke of it. Irritated to see that, in the examination of its tragedies, Pierre Corneille did not mention null him, of Aubignac unchained against this great man, and, seizing all the occasions to attack it, it made print two Dissertations relating to the dramatic poem, in the form of remarks on the two tragedies of Mr. Corneille, entitled Sophonisbe and Sertorius , Paris, 1665, in-12. Crow, alarmed, complained some highly, and wanted to make stop the impression. Not having been able to come to end, it urged one of his friends to publish the Défenses of Sophonisbe and Sertorius . The abbot of Aubignac retorted there by his Troisième and fourth Essays concerning the tragedy of Mr. Corneille, entitled Oedipus, and Answer to his calumnies , 1665, in-12.

Publications

Though the abbot of Aubignac answers directly Corneille, it should not be believed that this one was the author of its Défenses . In addition to the works from which we come to speak, one must about it much of others with the abbot of Aubignac. The principal ones are:

Treated nature of the Satyrs, Rough, Monsters and Demons , in-8°, that some allot to another François Hedelin, 1627;
Practice of the Theater , 1657 or 1669, in-4°. The specimens under these two dates are same edition; reprinted in 1715 with Amsterdam, 2 vol. in-8°. This edition contains the Discours of Gilles Ménage on Heautontimorumenos , and the Terence justified .

D' Aubignac worked until the end of its life to improve the Pratique Theater and added to it a whole chapter on the speeches of piety in the tragedies. One finds it in the Continuation of the Memories of literature and history given by the P. Desmolets, T. 6, p. 210. The author had cut off from his book all the places where he speaks about Crow. “The Practice of the Theater, known as Laharpe, is heavy and tedious comment of Aristote, made by a pedant without spirit and judgment, which hears badly what it read, and which believes to know the theater, because it knows the Greek. ”

Zénobie, tragedy in prose , 1647, in-4°. This part is the only one that the author gave to the theater. The authors whom it had included in his Pratique Theater were charmed to find this occasion to criticize it. They reproached him that the rules which it had given him were unfruitful, and, as it was praised to be the only one which had followed the rules of Aristote, the Prince de Condé says one day “which it knew gladly with the abbot of Aubignac to have followed the rules of Aristote so well; but that he did not forgive with the rules of Aristote to have made make a so bad tragedy with the abbot of Aubignac. ”
Macarise, or the Queen of the Fortunate islands , 1664, 2 vol. in-8°. It is on this work that Richelet, which had initially rented it and which then was scrambled with Aubignac, made these four worms that it sent to him:

Hédelin, it wrongly that you lime pits of me,

didn't I is rent your work?

could I make more for you

to return a false witness?

History of time, or Relation of the kingdom of Coquetterie , in-12, 1654, 1655, 1659. This last edition is increased by a Lettre of Ariste with Cléon containing the apology for the Histoire of time .
Tests of eloquence : there is only one volume of printed paper form.
Speech with the king, on re-establishment of one second academy in its town of Paris , 1664, in-4°. The abbot of Aubignac, which gathered at his place a certain number of beautiful spirits, asked for the title of royal academy for this company. In spite of the protection of the dolphin, this Discours did not produce any effect. None the works of the abbot of Aubignac is read today, in spite of this judgment of Chaplain: “It is a spirit very of fire, which is thrown to all, and which draws has of all, if not to perfection, at least in kind has that it is necessary more to rent it than to blame it. He preaches, he treats the poetic one, he makes profane and allegorical novels. One saw comedies of that and some sonnets approved enough. He has for all that a great scholarship, and its style is not the worst. ” In the Memories of literature of |Sallengre, one finds an article very curious on the life and the works about Aubignac.
Essay on the judgment of the Theaters , 1666
academic Conjectures about Iliade , 1715.

External bond

Its tragedies and ballets on site CÉSAR

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