Pierre Gringore , born in 1475 with Thury-Harcourt and died in 1539 in Lorraine, is a Poète and Dramaturge French.

Gringore was director of troop and Dramaturge with Paris of 1506 with 1512. It belonged to the Child-without-Concern which raised it with the second dignity of their company, that of Stupid Mother and, of 1502 with 1517, it directed the execution of the mystery S to Paris. Cry of the prince of Sotz , by which he convened the public, is of a sharp pace:

Sotz whimsical, sotz estourdis, sotz wise,

Sotz of cities, chastcaulx, of villages,

Sotz rassotés, sotz denied, solz subtilz,

Sotz in love, sotz deprive, sotz wild,

old, new Sotz and sotz of all ages,

Sotz barbarians, estrangers and gentilz,

Sotz reasonable, perverse sotz, sotz retifz;

Vostre prince, without null intervals,

the fatty mardy, will play its games with the Markets.

Belonging to the group of the Large Rhetoriqueurs, Pierre Gringore wrote moral poems: the Castle of Ploughing (1499), the Castle of Loves (1500), Notable lesson and proverbs by quatrains (1527), the Known as ones and authorities of the wise philosophers (dubious date); satirical poems: the Insane companies (1502) where it supports the king of France Louis XII against the pope Jules II, Abuses the world (1504), Feintises of the world which reigns (1532); political lampoons: the Lament of Milannoys (1500), the Company of Venice (1509), the Hope of peace (1510) directed against the pope Jules II, as well as the following, the Hunting of the stag of the stags (allusion under the Popes: Servus servorum Dei); Sotie S, joke S and Morality S for the theater, of which some, with the support of the king, attacked the pope: Play of the Prince of stupid and Stupid Mother (1511), first political comedy where he encourages Louis XII to engage the fight against the Church, follow-up of the stubborn Man (Jules II) and Faire, and To say , Imaginations of Stupid Mother (1516), small talk of Stupid Mother (1521), the Will of Lucifer (1521); a mystery of the serious kind, the Mystery of saint Louis (1541), for the brotherhood of this king; finally works of piety: the Blazon of the heretics (1524), Hours of Nostre-Lady (1525), the Songs royaulx , illustrated morally on the miraculous mysteries of Christ (1527), the Paraphrase of the seven very-invaluable ones and notable Psalms (1541).

Its works offer a singular mixes mischievousness and of good-naturedness, cheerfulness and gravity, naive faith and discuteuse mood; they are the exact representation of the spirit of the Parisian middle-class at the beginning of. It is especially remarkable by its dramatic works, to which it owes its reputation; its jokes have smoothness, its soties of strength and its political comedies a boldness which makes think of Aristophane and whose one did not see almost any more an example on the theater in France. In the Mystery of saint Louis , it has rise and size. One finds it frequently energetic in his works satirico-morals where it affects even a solemnity which its style always does not support. The majority of the works which it made print show with the frontispiece the portrait of Stupid Mother, with a dress of monk and a cap furnished with ears of ass; one reads around: “All by Reason; Reason everywhere; By any Reason. ” These editions are extremely rare.

Pierre Gringore became, under the feather of Victor Hugo and Theodore de Banville a Personnage of fiction with the C-W communication of “Gringoire”. The first put it in scene, by anachronism, in Notre-Dame de Paris , and the second made of them the hero of a Comédie in worms and an act, played Th3e4atre Fran1cais in 1860.