Guillaume Colletet

See also: Colletet

Guillaume Colletet was a Poète French, born and died in Paris (March 12th 1598 - February 11th 1659). Member of the French Academy.

Biography

It had reputation in its time, enjoys the protection of several large characters, inter alia Richelieu, of which he was sometimes the collaborator and who once gave him 600 pounds for 6 bad towards. It was one of the first members of the French Academy. He married successively three of his maidservants; its misconduct reduced it to misery.

One has of him:

  1. of poetries (tragedies, pastoral, etc), among which one notices the Banquet of the poets , 1646, and of many epigrams;
  2. of the treaties estimated enough on moral poetry, the sonnet, the eclogue, joined together under the poetic title of Art , 1658;
  3. of the translations, inter alia, those of the Layers of the Virgin , Jacopo Sannazaro, and Scévole of Holy-Marthe.

Very enthusiast of his wife Claudine the Dwarf , it wanted to make it also pass for poetess, and composed of the writings signed of her. Feeling to die, it wrote a last part to him where she stated to want to give up poetry with the death of her husband. Nobody was easily deceived, and especially not Jean of the Fountain, which rima an epigram on this subject.

His/her son is François Colletet.

Works

  • Entertainments ;
  • the Banquet of the Poets (1646);
  • Epigram (1653);
  • History of the French poets .

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