Géraud Servant of Réganhac
Géraud Valet of Réganhac (born the June 5th 1719 with Cahors, in the department of the Batch - died the June 18th 1787 in the family field of Réganhac, in the village of Pechpeyroux, commune of Cézac, Batch) was a French lawyer and poet of the 18th century, somewhat forgotten nowadays, but extremely appreciated at its time.
Biography
Géraud was the son of Pierre de Valet of Reganhac (° 1685) and of Marie de Marciel.
In 1744, Géraud Valet of Réganhac took part with his cousin Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan in the foundation of a Learned society which will become later the Académie of Montauban, recognized by letter patent of Louis XV, gone back to Dunkirk the July 17th 1744.
Friend of Jean-François Marmontel, it is introduced to Voltaire, is come to Toulouse when it was interested in the Affaire Fixed. Large the philosopher of the Lights wishes to see it becoming Minister for the Instruction, but Géraud Valet refuses the proposal in these terms: “ Nec nosco, nec cognocere volo magnos ” (I do not know, nor do not want to know the large ones).
In 1758, he is lawyer with the Parlement of Cahors and becomes the following year lawyer with the Parlement of Toulouse.
Works
In 1756, Géraud Valet of Réganhac published:
- Ode on the catch of the strong Saint-Philippe
- Ode on the desertion and the return
- Praise of Louis XII
- Course of literature and poetry
- Praise of lyric poetry
- wild nature and cultivated nature
In addition, he wrote two speeches which was crowned by the Académie of the floral Plays of Toulouse:
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“is the philosophical spirit more useful than harmful for the beautiful letters? ”
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“isn't it ashamed of having more care for the defects than for the ridiculous ones? ”
Prize winner of the floral Plays, it gained three flowers with the contest Clémence Isaure , and the May 7th 1759, it was named Master are floral plays . In 1761, it reads with the Academy its “ Discours on the ode ”, and in 1767, it speaks in praise of Clémence Isaure .
In 1775, it publishes “lyric Studies” according to Horace.
The June 21st 1777, three of its odes are read in front of Mister, brother of the king Louis XVI and future king Louis XVIII, during a meeting of the Académie of the floral Plays with Toulouse.
Family life
The November 28th 1752 it marries his/her Anne cousin of Servant of Calamane, with which it had a child - an only son - Pierre Marie Joseph, born the October 27th 1753 in Pechpeyroux, him-also poet, who will be general treasurer of France at the office of Finances of Montauban.
His wife dies the June 5th 1773, and itself dies, a few days after its sixty-eighth birthday, following an attack of apoplexy, the June 18th 1787, in its field of Réganhac (Pechpeyroux).
Source
Information having allowed the drafting of this article on this ignored character was mainly drawn on the biographical card relating to it on the site devoted to the village of Pechpeyroux (Heading Genealogy) '' Ancêtres of Jean Hugues Henri Pierre de Valet of Reganhac ''
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