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Jean Chaplain , born with Paris the December 4th 1595 and dead the February 22nd 1674, is a poet and critical literary French.

Biography

Wire of a notary, Chapelain had early acquired reputation by some poetries and his deep knowledge. Tutor of wire of the large provost of France, Mr. of the Case, it enjoyed a certain literary authority already, while at the same time it had not still produced anything. After having published some odes and a translation of the Guzman d' Alfarache , it became a true oracle.

For several years, Chapelain had prepared to put the seal at his glory a great poem epic, the Virgin or delivered France , which excited the curiosity of the living rooms. On the faith of some worms déclamés by their author and of the reputation of this one, one announced one dazzling chief of work. This anticipation did nothing but increase the fame of the author and that of the poem.

When the first twelve songs of this one appeared finally, in 1656, it was general consternation. The last twelve songs were never printed. Nicolas Boileau sifted the author of epigrams which are worth the little of celebrity to him who is preserved to him today.

Chaplain did not remain about it less in credit at the court: The cardinal of Richelieu called it with the French Academy as of the foundation of this company, granted a pension of 3000 pounds to him, charged it drawing up the plan of the Dictionnaire and the Grammaire of the Academy and with writing the critic of the Cid of Pierre Corneille. Jean-Baptiste Colbert charged it with drawing up the list of the writers and worthy scientists to receive gratifications of the king and which were entitled to liberalities of Louis XIV.

Chaplain was of an extreme avarice: it is affirmed that it gained the disease of which it died to be wet the legs one day of storm rather than to pay a moderate remuneration in order to cross on a board a broad brook.

Works

  • Gueux, or Life of Guzman d' Alfarache, returned Spanish original of Mateo Aleman (1619). the Robber, or Life of Guzman d' Alfarache. Pourtrait of time and mirror of the human life. Part not yet veuë, & renduë accurately of the Spanish original of its first & true Autheur Mateo Aleman. Second part (1620) Text in line
  • Letter or speech of Mr. Chapelain to Mr. Favereau, carrying his opinion on the poem of Adonis of the riding Marino (1623) Text in line
  • Sentimens of the French Academy on the tragi-comedy of Cid (1638). With Valentine Conrart.
  • Ode for the birth of Mgr the count de Dunois (1646) Text in line
  • Ode for Mgr the duke of Anguien (1646) Text in line
  • the Virgin, or delivered France, heroic poem (1656) Text in line
; Posthumous publications
  • Of the reading of the old novels (1870). Republication: Slatkine, Geneva, 1968. Text in line
  • the last Twelve songs of the poëme of the Virgin, published for the first time on the manuscripts of the National library, by H. Herluison, preceded by a foreword of the author and a study on the poem of the Virgin by Rene Kerviler (1892)
  • critical Opuscules (1936)
  • Seventy-seven new letters with Nicolas Heinsius: 1649-1658 , published according to the manuscript of Leyde with an introduction and notes by Bernard Bray, Mr. Nijhoff, $the Hague, 1966.
  • authentic Letters with Nicolas Heinsius, 1649-1672: a friendship érudite between France and Holland , edition established, introduced and annotated by Bernard Bray, Champion, Paris, 2005.

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