Pierre-Robert the Corner one of Cideville

Pierre-Robert the Corner one of Cideville , born the September 2nd 1693 with Rouen and dead the March 5th 1776 with Paris, was a Magistrat and Lettré French.

The Corner one of Cideville succeeded his/her father in the responsibility of advising with the Parlement of Normandy. In addition to the study of the laws to which it had seriously applied early, it still had cultivated the Musique, the Peinture and the Poésie especially of which it had, at eighteen years, gained a price with the Academy of the Palinod S of Rouen.

School-fellow of Voltaire to the Louis-the-Large College, it will be, of the consent of this last, his friend more than fifty years. Making great case of its judgment, this one did not hesitate to subject its writings to its judgment. Voltaire even came to seek refuge at his place in 1730 whereas it was continued for certain his works. He would have written Éryphile and the Death of César at the time of this stay in Normandy. The correspondence of this major figure of the Lights in province, with Voltaire constitutes a mine for the specialists in this time. One of its letters gives the opportunity to judge talent epigrammatic of Cideville: “You did not have guard to find Mr. de Voltaire, about it writes it with a correspondent, it left very precipitately Déville, the very same day that you came to seek there; it was warned to cure a peasant of the fever, and one took it for a wizard:

to have delivered

a churl of the third fever,

the village appeared

That our man was in trade

With some sworn devil.

Bien is true that the talent to cure the patients,

Surnaturel in this canton,

Contes of werewolf had joined, this says one.

One heard at night dawn serenades

In the neighborhoods of the house,

And of lower part the palisades

Sortaient donors serenades,

Crus of Satan the comrades,

Who gave to all the shiver

By infernal masquerades.

Undoubtedly one will have taken frolicking of Dryades

Which made festival in modern Apollon.

In short, the priest, more stupid than his after-effect,

Spoke to make a good lawsuit,

And than it was necessary that the Small tower

questioned It on all these facts.

Of course that certain bag

Which one did not dare to look at too much without fright,

Es hands of the clerk's office carefully would be put

Like shop of enchanter.

And I have well fears that with many my fellow-members

(With whom God makes peace!)

Certain writings of Eschyle and Sophoclès

had not appeared magic characters;

Because one said it - and they are not dreams -

Is in Rouen chair, adviser,

Which is believing in the wizard

By the reason that it is not to it guères.

The Corner one of Cideville was, with Fontenelle, the cofounder of the Académie of Rouen from which it wrote the statutes. It also equipped Rouen with a school of Dessin at which it made place Descamps. Although it never did anything to print, there exists among the manuscripts which it bequeathed, with its rich person library, with the Academy of Rouen a collection entitled various and curious Poésies . One second part of this collection entitled Journal since June 1743 until in 1775 is, with the portrait of the author, at the Public library of Rouen.

With its death, its praise was pronounced with the Academy of Rouen by Jean-Baptist-Guillaume Haillet de Couronne.

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