Jacques Of the Perron

Biography

Born from a father doctor of the name of David become minister with his conversion with the Calvinism with the Reform, Jacques Of the Perron is taken along as of his childhood to Bern to escape persecution. He receives an education in there Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Mathématiques and Philosophie.

Of return in Normandy, it is presented by Jacques of Matignon to the king, whom it impresses by his scholarship. It settles then with Paris, there abjures the Calvinisme and obtains the place of reader of the king Henri III

Having received the order to preach in front of the king with the convent of Vincennes, the success of its sermon on the love of god and the funeral oration of Ronsard of which he was the friend, convinces it to take the orders.

With died of Henri III, after having supported some time the cardinal Charles of Bourbon, chief of the League, against the king, it joins with Henri IV, which it informs in the Catholic religion and receives his conversion. In 1591, this one names it bishop of Évreux and to Rome in 1594 sends it to obtain its discharge and to request the lifting of the interdict launched against France.

Of return to its diocese, it fights in two famous conferences the doctrines of the Calvinism, defended by Philippe Duplessis-Mornay and Agrippa of Aubigné. It converts, inter alia, the brother of Jean de Sponde, Henri de Sponde, who becomes bishop of Pamiers.

In 1604, it is sent to Rome like person in charge of the France. To died of Clement VIII, it contributes, mainly by its eloquence, with the election of Leon XI and, with died of this last, twenty-four days after its election, of Paul V. He is made cardinal and, in 1606, he is named archbishop of Direction to have contributed to restore peace between the the Holy See and the Vénitien S.

After the death of Henri IV, it plays an active role with the General states of 1614, where it supports the doctrines ultramontane are against the Tiers state.

The authenticity of the religious convictions of the cardinal Of the Perron nevertheless was discussed. Tallemant of Réaux told in its Historiettes that one day “it made a speech in front of Henri III, to prove that there was a god, and after having done it, it offered to prove, by a very contrary speech, that there was not. ” Elsewhere, it pays: “It brought back the pox of Rome and died about it. While dying, he wanted to never say another thing, when he took the host, if not that he took it as the Apostles had taken it. It was said that he had wanted to die into cheating, as he had lived. ”

His/her brother, Jean Davy Of the Perron, was archbishop of Direction.

Poetic work

Davy the Perron inherits Ronsard and Desportes, which introduces it with the Cour, and announces Malherbe. It is located between poetry Maniériste and traditional poetry . Its images are often baroques and its style is flowered. Its poetic works are varied: poetry religious, erotic, dedications, poetry for the king, tombs and praises funeral. This diversity is explained partly by the chronology. For example, poetries of love are written before Perron does not become bishop. It would have been, indeed, astonishing that a monk writes works of this kind, because its poems had as a function to exert and show only the talent of the well-read men. Then only the more serious kinds like religious poetries will come.

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