Jacques Cassagne

Jacques Cassagne or Jacques de Cassaigne (January 1st 1636 with Nimes - May 19th 1679 with Paris) is a man of the church, poet and moralist French.

Doctor of Divinity, it is guard of the library of the king and between with the French Academy at the 29 years age. In 1663, it is one of the first four members of the “Small Academy” of which will be born the Académie from the inscriptions and the humanities. It writes, in 1665, the foreword of the complete Œuvres of Guez de Balzac published by Conrart and it publishes in 1674 a Traité of morals on the value . It translates of Latin the Rhétorique of Cicéron and the Histoires of Salluste. Chaplain known as of him which he writes “with more naturalness than of receipt, especially in the human letters. ” (Quoted by the French Academy.)

It is a famous preacher. Boileau will make fun cruelly of him in its third Satire by evoking people who tighten the ones against the others to listen to the “sermons of Cassaigne” and those of Charles Cotin. As a poet, Cassagne is party of modern in the Querelle of Old and Modern the. It publishes in 1668 a poem On the conqueste of the Franche-Comté and in 1672 a Poëme on the war of Holland . And Boileau to continue:

Each one output its frivolous maxims,

Réglé the intérests of each Potentate,

Corrigé the Police force, & reformed Estat;

Then from there embarking in the new war,

to overcome Holland, or to beat England.

Of failing health, Cassagne dies at the 46 years age, completed says one by sorrow that this satire caused him.

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Biographical note of the French Academy

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