Pierre of Primaudaye

Pierre of Primaudaye , lord of Barred, born in 1546 and died towards 1619, member of a many family of Angevins Protesting S, is a French man of letters.

One knows few things of his childhood, if not which it was endeuillée by the death of a brother decapitated to have killed a gentleman. He was, in 1580, gentleman of the room of Mister, and left several works which do not deserve the lapse of memory into which they fell. Most notable, the first part appeared in 1577, is the French Academy , where all philosophical and physiological knowledge of its time is summarized.

Primaudaye did then a similar work on the religious matters in the Christian Philosophy of the French Academy , work published in 1598 and signed “Of Primaudaye, adviser and Master of hotel of the king”.

This writer was a kind of Montaigne not Sceptique pious but. Here a passage of the Continuation of the French Academy , extracted the edition of 1591:

That love is desire of beauty, and that the beauty draws the love it is thing which more the ignoramuses have well-known. Even some learned pagan taught that what avoit induces God to create the world, but also to create it beautiful, and of so beautiful form in all its parts, had been love. Also the name of which it is named returns testimony of its beauty. Because world means differently as which diroît beautiful ornament, and quite decorated. Then thus that God created it and formed by love, there is doubt that love is not spread by everyone and that it is not always attracted by the beauty, so that it is in conformity and similar to the fountain which it left. In addition, any beauty is like a ray of this infinite and divine beauty which is as a God… And the love which induced God the Almighty with the creation of all things is proceeded of the kindness of icelui.

Its influence in humanistic Europe of the Renaissance is not negligible and, as well as the republications of Plutarque, its French Academy would have been a source of inspiration for Shakespeare.

Publications

French Academy, divided into eighteen days of the institution of manners, and of what relates to the good and fortunately to live in all states and conditions, by the precepts of the doctrines and the examples of the life of old wise and men famous (1577) Text in line
Suite of the Francoise Academy, in which it is traicté of the man and as by a natural history of the body and heart (1580)
Third volume of the Academy Francoise (1588) Text in line
Philosophy chrestienne of the Francoise Academy. Truths & only means of the happy life (1598) Text in line
Quatrains of the vray hor (1589) Text in line
Vrayes consolations and sainctes prayers of the faithful heart (1604)
the Quatrains of President Favre, to which have este adjoustez 100 consolatory quatrains of Sr of Primaudaye (1609)
Advis on the need and forms of S. Concile for the union of the Churches chrestiennes in the catholic foy (1611)

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