Nicolas Chorier

Nicolas Chorier (September 1st 1612 with Vienna (Isere) - August 14th 1692) is a lawyer, writer and historian French. It is known especially for its historical works on the Dauphiné, like for a dialog saphic erotic apocryphal book entitled the Academy of the ladies, or the Seven gallant talks with Alosia .

He is lawyer with Grenoble, then prosecutor of the king. Its works on the Dauphine one remain still today an important source for the historians.

The Academy of the ladies

This book first of all appeared in the form of a Latin manuscript in under the title of Aloisiae Sigaeae, Toletanae, Satyra sotadica of arcanis amoris and Veneris . The original had allegedly been written by it in Spanish by Aloysia or Luisa Sigea, poetess érudite and girl of honor at the court of Lisbon, then translated then into Latin by a certain Jean or Joannes Meursius, humanistic born with Leyde in Holland in 1613. Its attriubtion with Sigea was a trickery and the character of Meursius was only one pure fabrication. The manuscript circulated at the beginning of the 18th century in the mediums Libertin S and knew several Latin editions under different titles. It was translated several times into French, in particular by Jean Terrasson in 1750, and of many English times.

the Academy of the ladies is presented in the form of a series of dialogs between Tullia, lady Italian 26 years, marries of Callias, which take care of the sexual initiation of his/her young cousin, Ottavia, with which it declares: “Your mother asked me to discover you the most mysterious secrecies of the bridal bed and to teach you what you must be with your husband, which your husband will be also, touching these small things for which the men ignite so extremely. This night, so that I can to you endoctriner on all a freer language, we will sleep together in my bed, of which I would like to be able to say that it will have been the softest string of Venus. ”

Works

; Historical works

research of the sior Chorier on antiquitez of the town of Vienna, metropolis of Al (1658) * genealogical History of the house of Sassenage, connects former counts de Lion and of Forests (1669) * general History of Dauphine (1671-72). Republication: 1971.
political Estat of the province of Dauphine, supplement in political Estat of the country of Dauphine (1671-72) * History of Dauphine, shortened for monseigneur Dauphin (1674)
the Peerage-book of the province of Dauphine (1697)
Life of Artus Plum tree of Saint-Andrew, adviser of Roy in his councils of Estat and deprived, first president at the Parliaments of Provence and Dauphine (1548-1616), according to a new manuscript of Nicolas Chorier, published with introduction, notes, appendices and the new correspondence of Saint-Andrew, by Alfred Vellot (1880)

; Memories

Nicolai Chorerii Viennensis J.C. Adversariorum of vita and rebus am libri III (1847) * Memories of Nicolas Chorier on his life and its businesses, translated of the three books into Latin text inserted in the 4th volume of the “Bulletin of the Company of statistics of the department of Isere”, by Felix Crozet (1868) ; Modern editions of the Academy of the ladies
Of the secrecies of the love and Venus, sotadic satire of Luisa Sigea, Tolède, by Nicolas Chorier , foreword of Andre Berry, Editions the Gold of Time, 1969.
the Academy of the ladies or Philosophy in the boudoir of the Great century , erotic dialogs presented by Jean-Pierre Dubost, Editions Philippe Picquier, Arles, 1999.
Extracted on line from the translation from Alcide Bonneau (1881):

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