Philippe-Emmanuel Coulanges

Philippe-Emmanuel Coulanges , born the August 23rd 1633 with Paris and dead the January 31st 1716, is a Chansonnier French.

Cousin and friend of Marie de Sévigné, his relationship and his friend, always represent it “liked, always estimated, always carrying the joy and the pleasure, always favorite and heading of some friend of importance, a duke, a prince, a pope; always in health, never with load with anybody, not of businesses, not of ambition. ”

In this frame of mind and character, the marquis de Coulanges, who was to advise at the Parliament, renonça with the magistrature and sold his load in order to compose more with his ease of merry verses. His/her cousin still says that it “succeeded so well with the songs, that it was right that it was given to it entire. ”

The Recueil of songs of Coulanges was published by itself (Paris, 1698,2 vol. in-12). Its Letters, which accompany those by his/her cousin of Sévigné, are of an easy style. Its Mémoires , followed letters to Marie de Sévigné were published by Monmerqué (Paris, 1820, in-8° and in-12).

His/her uncle is the abbot Christophe de Coulanges, uncle de Marie de Sévigné, that this one indicated by the nickname of Well-good : he indeed had for her the affection of a father, managed his fortune and its good left him.

His wife Marie-Angelica Coulanges was one of the ornaments of the court of Louis XIV. There are of it fifty letters, which one joint with the Odes of Mrs. de Sévigné .

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 534

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