Vincent Conveys

Vincent Conveys , born in 1597 with Amiens and dead on May 26th, 1648 with Paris, was a Poète and prosator French.

Wire of a wine merchant who followed the court, it made its studies in Paris and gained the protection of Gaston of Orleans, brother of the king, by addressing a piece of poetry to him to the sixteen years age. This prince appointed it general inspector of his house, then introducer of the ambassadors. The count d' Avaux, of which he had been the school-fellow, put it in relation to several people of the high society. Chaudebonne introduced it with the Hôtel of Rambouillet. He taught the flowery language and the good mannerss with accustomed this hotel of which he was the gallant hero and airspeed indicator, as Balzac was the serious hero. When it accompanied the duke by Orleans, after the Day of Dupes, in Lorraine, then in the Languedoc, the epistle S which it sent were an event in the world of the beautiful-spirits from which had separated it the policy. He wrote of them also Spain, where the prince had responsible it for a mission.

Of return to Paris, it was, in 1634, one of the first members of the French Academy, and completely reconciled the cardinal of Richelieu by a letter on the catch of Corbie, which is its masterpiece (1636). Sent towards the large-duke of Tuscany in 1638 to notify the birth of the dolphin to him, it went until Rome where it dealt with lawsuit that had there Catherine of Rambouillet and was elected member of the Academy of the humorists.

Master of hotel of the king in 1639, first clerk of the count d' Avaux in 1642, with the salaries of four thousand books, it still had a pension of thousand ecus which the queen made him grant. Its income ends up going up to eighteen thousand books. It remained until the end of its frivolous and gallant life, having only one serious passion, the play. By its character, as by its talent, Voiture was completely specific to attract the favor of the living rooms and to shine in the company of the beautiful spirits of its time that it fills up its fame. Its letters were oracles of the taste there and made there the fashion of the Prose.

This Courtier, with the made poetry of research, Mannerism and galantery, which did not want to publish its works of alive sound, was regarded as very skilful in the minor poetic kinds. As for the worms of good, they raised powerful quarrels and parties which seem close making a literary Fronde about it. Its Sonnet in Uranie , opposed to that of Job by Benserade, divided the world into jobelins and of the uranist at the time of the Querelle of the jobelins and uranist the which showed under a new day the quarrelsome mood of Anne Genevieve de Bourbon-Cop which was with the head of its partisans.

Its sonnet of Beautiful Matineuse , opposed to that of Malleville on the same subject, like a diamond with a pearl, is a sample of the one in its manners:

Of the doors of the morning the amante of Céphale

Its pinks épandait in the medium of the airs,

And threw on the lately open skies

These features of gold and azure that while being born it spreads out,

When the divine nymph, with my rest fatal,

Appeared, and shone of as well various attractions

As it seemed than it only lit the universe

And filled with fire Eastern bank.

the sun, hastening for the glory of the skies,

opposed its flame to the glare of its eyes,

And took all the rays whose Olympe is gilded.

the wave, the ground and the air ignited around,

But at Philis one took it for the dawn,

And one believed that Philis was the star of the day.

Convey, the writings are representative of the Préciosité, took readily a pompeux tone. It was often only one rhymester of lanes, a society man for whom the literature was only one pastime, but of which all the court repeated the ditties, its Lanturlu and its Landriry :

One would judge by whiteness

Of Bourbon, and by its freshness,

Landrirette,

Which it took birth of the lilies,

Landriry.

But it is in the Rondeau that Voiture, as a poet, excelled. One quotes that which has for Refrain or Clausule: “My faith, it is made”, and which gives at the same time the rule and the example of the kind:

My faith, it is made of me, because Isabelle

entreated Me to make him a rondo.

That puts one to me an extreme sorrow.

What! thirteen worms, eight out of water, five in ême

I would make him a boat at once.

In here are five however in a heap.

Let us make seven by calling upon Brodeau,

And then put, by some stratagem:

My faith, it is made.

If I could encor of my brain

Tirer five worms, the work would be beautiful;

But however I am inside eleventh,

And Ci I believe that I do it twelfth;

In here are thirteen adjusted on the level.

My faith, it is made.

The reputation of Car still survived to him and, until the end of, went until the passion. The quarrel of Girac and Costar about it had a long repercussion. Boileau spoke about him more once of an eulogistic tone which contrasts with its ordinary severity. Marie de Sévigné said: “So much worse for those which do not hear it! ” The difficult one is indeed to hear Voiture, with its points, its word games, its ambiguity S and its continual efforts of spirit. What the letters of its time found clever at his place, pretty and charming, can escape or shock. Car had nevertheless a notable influence on French poetry. While Balzac corrected it by rhetoric and the nobility, Voiture softened it and started to give him the lightness of the turns, the facility of the expression.

Enough pretentious of its nature, the society peoples which it cotoyait did not make fault of giving it, on the occasion, its place by pointing out its low wire condition to him of wine merchant. One thus quotes the word of the hostess of the Hôtel of Rambouillet, Catherine of Rambouillet, in connection with one of his Proverbe S: “That one is not worth anything, bore us in another”.

The Œuvres of Car were joined together only after its death (Paris, 1650, in-4°) and were frequently republished until in 1745.

Works

Poem Beautiful Matineuse (1635)
Letter on the catch of Corbie (1636)
Letter of the carp to the pike (1643)
Epistle with Monseigneur the Prince on his return of Germany (1645 - 1648)
Sonnet of Uranie (1647)
Poetries of Mr. de Voiture (posthumous, 1650)
Freight bills (posthumous, 1729)
Letters (posthumous edition established by Ubicini, 1855)
Poetries (2 volumes, posthumous edition established per H. Lafay, 1971)

External bonds

Some worms of Mr. de Voiture
Bonds
Biographical note - Poetry on the Fabric

Source

Gustave Vapereau, universal Dictionary of the literatures , Paris, Hatchet, 1876, p. 2047-8

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