Louis-Elisabeth of the Alder of Tressan

Louis-Elisabeth of the Alder, count de Tressan , born the November 4th 1705 with the Mans and dead the October 31st 1783 of a fall of car on the road of Saint-Leu-the-Forest, is a soldier, physicist and French, known writer mainly for its chivalrous Romance adaptations of of the Moyen-âge.

Its life and its work

At the 13 years age, he is companion of the young person Louis XV, then lieutenant-general and aide-de-camp of the king to the Bataille of Fontenoy. He is named governor of Toul and he is called by the king Stanislas at the court of Lunéville where he receives the title of large Maréchal.

First director of the Royal Company of Sciences and the Humanities of Nancy in 1751 and member of several other French Academies and foreign, it is elected member of French Academy and the Academy of Science in 1749 in 1780.

Friend of Voltaire and Buffon, it attends the living room of Mrs. de Tencin and composes several odes as of many adaptations of chivalrous novels which it translates and adapts of Spanish and the Former French and of which some will be several republished times. He is also the author of the one of the first French treaties on the electricity.

Selected works

Amadis de Gaulle, free translation (1779)
furious Roland. Heroic poem of Arioste (4 volumes, 1780)
Test on the electric fluid, considered as universal agent (2 volumes, 1786). Text on line: * Body of extracts of tales of chivalry (4 volumes, 1782). Contains: I. Speech preliminary on the François novels. Tristan de Léonois, wire of Meliadus. Artus of Brittany. Flora and White-Fleur. Cléomades and Claremonde (according to Adenet the King). Extracts from the Romance of the Rose , preceded by a short essay on the state of the French literature under the reigns of Louis VI, Louis VII, Philippe-Auguste, Louis VIII, S. Louis, Philippe Bold the and Philippe Beautiful the; extracted the beginning of the 4150 first and Romance of the Rose towards which remained to us of Guillaume de Loris. Pierre of Provence and Beautiful Maguelone. II. the Fleur of the battles, or History of the important facts of Doolin of Mainz. Huon of Bordeaux. Guerin de Montglave. III. Dom Ursino Navarin and Dona Ines d' Oviédo. History and jokes chronic of small Jehan de Saintré and the Lady of the Beautiful-cousins (according to Antoine of Dirty the). misleading Appearances, extracted the history from very noble and chevaleureux prince Gerard, count de Nevers (according to Gerbert de Montreuil). IV. Research on the origin of the novels invented before the Christian era. History of Rigda and To reign Lodbrog. Zélie, or Ingenuous the .
the Robert Knight, or History of Robert called the Brave man (1800)
Pink Summers, or the Dangers of improvidence freely translates of English (1805)
Œuvres (8 volumes, 1822-23)

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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