Jean-Baptiste Henri de Trousset, lord of Valincour or Valincourt (1 March 1653,

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– 4 January 1730) was a French admiral and man of letters. He was a friend of chancellor d'Aguesseau,

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(who he replaced at

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and as official historiographer to

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) and Boileau (Valincour was the dedicatee of Boileau's eleventh satire, "On true and false honour", and also completed the publication of Boileau's works in 1713). Jean-Baptiste-Henri du Trousset de Valincourt - Versailles MV 2944

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Biography

As a protégé of

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, he entered the court of

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and became secretary of the fleet then secretary to the prince's commands. He was also made an honorary member of the

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in 1721.

Works

*'' Lettres à la marquise de *** sur "La princesse de Clèves" '', Paris, 1678, in-12 (repub. 1926) *'' Vie de François de Lorraine, duc de Guise'', Paris, 1681, in-12 * Preface to the ''Dictionnaire de l'Académie'', 1718 * ''Essai d'une traduction d'Horace'', Amsterdam, 1727, in-12 * Verse translation of several odes of

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in the '' Menagiana'', II * ''Observations critiques sur l' Œdipe de Sophocle''

Bibliography

* Cardinal Georges Grente (ed.), ''Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le XVIIIe siècle'', new edition edited by François Moureau, Paris, Fayard, 1995, p. 1312 * A. Monglond, "Dernières années d'un ami de Racine, Valincour et ses lettres au président Bouhier (1725-1730)", Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, 1924, pp. 365–403 et 1925, pp. 260–261 * Oscar de Vallée, "Valincour et Racine", ''Le Moniteur universel'', 1859 * "Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour", in

Gustave Vapereau Louis Gustave Vapereau (4 April 1819 – 18 April 1906) was a French writer and lexicographer famous primarily for his dictionaries, the ''Dictionnaire universel des contemporains'' and the ''Dictionnaire universel des littérateurs''. Biography ...

, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, 2 volumes * C.-G. Williams, "Valincour", in ''Dissertation Abstracts'', 32, Ann Arbor, 1971–72 {{DEFAULTSORT:Valincour, Jean-Baptiste Henri De 1653 births 1730 deaths Writers from Paris French sailors French classical scholars Members of the Académie Française French translators Members of the French Academy of Sciences French male non-fiction writers