Nicolas Denisot

Nicolas Denisot (1515 - 1559) known as the Count d' Alsinois, was a poet French of the Pléiade, friend Pierre de Ronsard, Jacques Peletier of Mans, Jacques Tahureau and Rémy Belleau, all originating or attached to the Mans, capital of the Province of the Maine.

Biography

Nicolas Denisot went down from “old and illustrates family of the Perche” fixed long time at Nogent-le-Rotrou. Of no advance that the origin of the family was English, referring to a relative of Nicolas, Philippe Denisot, who named also Adison or Adamson. This family is attested with Nogent as of the xv• century, since before 1500, Jehan Denisot, the common ancestor, had married Helene Durand in Nogent. At that time the family had the Pitch manor.

Denisot were noble and carried “three ears of village in field of azure”. They were innumerable in the Pole then essaimèrent in the Maine and the Anjou with XVIIe and XVIII" centuries.

Nicolas was born with the Mans where remained its family. Jehan Denisot the Old one, his/her father was " bachelor in loix". Young person lawyer, it had left Nogent, his birthplace, to settle in the mancelle capital where it Maria twice. He became then Baillif of Adze-the-Riboul (). Jean the elder one of his sons, born from Simone Moreau which died a little later was thus the half-brother of Nicolas. He followed the traces of his father, made a lawyer career and was named thereafter Procureur in Mans. Francois, born from the second marriage and the elder one from Nicolas, was of church. He practiced also poetry, one has of him some parts. It is known that he was abbot of Périne and then Prieur of Adze-the-Riboul.

As for Nicolas, third wire of Jehan the Old one, it was born in Mans in 1515 from the second marriage from Jehan. It made rather poor studies, initially following the Small Schools, held by monks. Then it probably continued with the Saint¬Benoît college founded by Pierre Carbelin. The college was located in the district Saint-Pavin-of-Ia-City where remained Denisot. Nicolas had counted among the pupils of François Briand, maistre of the Schools of Saint-Benoist in the city of Mans. This one had published a collection of Noëls in 1512, preceding those by Jean Daniel, Lucas Lemoigne and Barthélemy Aneau.

It is very important, in order to include/understand the taste of Denisot for the hymns, to insist on the fact that this last, raises intelligent and studious, had certainly profited from the friendship that François Briand did not fail to testify to him. Denisot, young person and enthusiastic, could only admire its Master with the eyes and the ardor of adolescence. And this did not certainly leave influence its young imagination. Its choices and its works, to the length of a short life filled so well, say some rather long on this subject. As of childhood, Nicolas had bound of friendship with Jacques Peletier, had said of Mans, two years his junior and orphan of mother. Of a remarkable intelligence, Peletier, later, was called the Learned one. This friendship, rich person so much from the emotional point of view than cultural, probably had a beneficial influence on our poet. Did it follow with Jacques Tahureau the courses of the University of Angers? Nothing indicates it, which could explain the lightness of the luggage of Nicolas to the threshold of his life of adult. However this one had received with the cradle the taste of the letters, hereditary in this family.

As for its pseudonym of count d' Alsinois, it rather quickly took it as pen name: it was the fashion and Nicolas sacrificed with use.

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