Tristan the Hermit

See also: Hermit (homonymy)

François the Hermit, sior of Soliers known as Tristan the Hermit , born with the castle of Soliers, in the Walk, 1601 and deceased with Paris the September 7th 1655, is a Poète and Dramaturge French.

Dramatic author extremely applauded in his time, and whose part of beginning, the famous tragedy of Mariane , counterbalanced the success of the Cid , played the same year, lyric poet with the quite personal inspiration and the broad and sometimes superb breath, interesting polygraph in its historical Plaidoyers and its Lettres frays , storyteller at the same time pleasant and amusing in its curious autobiography of the Page disgraced (1643), if instructive, moreover, under the report/ratio of the events as of manners of the period that she embraces, Tristan the Hermit borrowed its first name from one of its ancestors, large provost of France under Louis XI.

Probably killing from Pierre the Hermit, the preacher of the first crusade, his family is almost ruined at the time of her birth. He in spite of is very placed like page at Henri de Bourbon, wire illegitimate of Henri IV and the marchioness of Verneuil, in 1604. He passes then to Scévole of Holy-Marthe, treasurer of France before becoming secretary of the marquis de Villars-Montpezat. Descendant of a race of which twenty-six swage last by the hands of the torturers, it had inherited it blood boiling and violence primesautière. Having successively wounded with blows of sword a cook who had been the wrong to play a nasty prank to him then, in Fontainebleau, a walker which had run up against it inadvertently, it is obliged, in 1614, to exile itself in England after having killed an opponent in duel, episode which it reported in a fictionalized way on the burlesque mode in the novel the Page disgraced .

In 1620, it takes part in the campaigns of Louis XIII against the Huguenot S in South-west. In 1621, it enters to the service of Gaston of Orleans, brother of Louis XIII and takes part in the creation of several ballets of court. It results for him a life from it from wandering which does not prevent it from being made a name in the Republic of the letters with its poetries melancholic persons singing with a great sincerity the charms of nature and love: the Sea , 1627, Felt sorry for of Acante , 1633, maritime Eclogue , 1634, the Loves of Tristan , 1638, the Quadrant of the sior Tristan , 1641, heroic Worms , 1648.

Bound to the Béjart, he also wrote for the theater with tragedies, among which Mariane , 1636, Panthée , 1637, the Death of Sénèque , 1644, the Death of Contracts , 1645, Osman , 1650, a tragi-comedy, the Folie of wise the , 1644, pastoral, Amaryllis , 1653 and a joke the Parasite , 1654. The success (except for Panthée where the place held by lyricism harms the intrigue) gained by its tragedies, where literary criticism distinguished “pre-raciniens moments”, made it regard as a rival of Corneille by its contemporaries. He also published Lettres frays , 1642 and historical Plaidoyers , 1643.

He was elected with the French Academy in 1649. The life of debauchery which it carried out in the entourage of Gaston of Orleans and its immoderate taste for the wine and the play ended up being right of little health which its tuberculosis left him. Quickly forgotten with its death, it profited from the redécouverte of the literature baroque and the libertines authors from which it however differs.

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