Paul Tallemant the Young person

See also: Tallemant

Paul Tallement , known as Paul Tallemant the Young person , born with Paris the June 18th 1642 and died in Paris the July 30th 1712, is a man of the church and French man of letters.

Biography

Taking as a starting point a kind then to the mode, that of the sentimental cartography of which the most known representation is the Carte of Tightening, it published in 1663 an allegorical imaginary voyage, Voyage of the isle of love , where the traversed places have as Masters of the characters such as the Respect, Concern, the Pride, Tepidity, Decency and, in the second part, Coquetterie and Galanterie.

He was elected member of the French Academy in 1666 and of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1673. He was also the author of entertainments, panegyrics and funeral praises. Claude Gros of Boze said of him which it was “more advisable by his virtues than by his talents. ”

Paul Tallement is the cousin of François Tallemant Elder the and of Gédéon Tallemant of Réaux.

Works

  • Voyage of the isle of love (1663) Text in line
  • the Second voyage of the isle of love (1664)
  • Collection of some new and gallant parts, as well in prose as in worms (1664)
  • Panegyrical and harangues with the praise of the king, pronounced in the French Academy on various occasions (1677)
  • Remarks and decisions of the Francoise Academy collected by Mr. L. Tallemant (1698). Republication: Slatkine, Geneva, 1972. Text in line

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