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Mathurin Régnier
Mathurin Régnier (December 21, 1573 – October 22, 1613) was a French satirist. Life Régnier was born in Chartres, which at that time was part of the Orléanais. His father, Jacques Régnier, was a bourgeois of good means and position; his mother, Simone Desportes, was the sister of the poet Philippe Desportes. Desportes, who was richly beneficed and in great favor at court, seems to have been regarded as Mathurin Régnier's natural protector and patron; and the boy himself, with a view to his following in his uncle's steps, was tonsured at eight years old. Little is known of his youth, and it is chiefly conjecture which fixes the date of his visit to Italy in a humble position in the suite of the cardinal, François de Joyeuse, in 1587. The cardinal was accredited to the papal court in that year as protector of the royal interests. Regnier found his duties irksome, and when, after many years of constant travel in the cardinals service, he returned definitely to France abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satirist
This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires. Early satirical authors *Aesop (c. 620–560 BCE, Ancient Greece) – ''Aesop's Fables'' *Diogenes (c. 412–600 BCE, Ancient Greece) * Aristophanes (c. 448–380 BCE, Ancient Greece) – '' The Frogs'', '' The Birds'', and '' The Clouds'' * Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–103 BCE, Roman Republic) *Horace (65–8 BCE, Roman Republic) – '' Satires'' * Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE, Roman Republic/Roman Empire) – '' The Art of Love'' *Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Hispania/Rome) – '' Apocolocyntosis'' * Persius (34–62 CE, Roman Empire) * Petronius (c. 27–66 CE, Roman Empire) – '' Satyricon'' *Juvenal (1st to early 2nd cc. CE, Roman Empire) – '' Satires'' * Lucian (c. 120–180 CE, Roman Empire) *Apuleius (c. 123–180 CE, Roman Empire) – ''The Golden Ass'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vauquelin De La Fresnaye
Vauquelin is a Norman-French surname, and former first name ( Walchelin, Walkelin). It may refer to: People * Vauquelin de Ferrers (died ca. 1045), Norman baron of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire * Vauquelin de Winchester, French name of Walkelin (died 1098), the first Norman bishop of Winchester * Jean Vauquelin (1728–1772), French naval officer * Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (1536–1608), French poet * Kévin Vauquelin (born 2001), French cyclist * Nicolas Vauquelin des Yveteaux (1567–1649), French poet, the son of Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye * Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829), French pharmacist and chemist * Moise Vauquelin (17th century), French buccaneer * Roger Vauquelin des Yveteaux, president of the 1940s French fascist youth organization Jeunesse Populaire Française Other * Vauquelin-class destroyer. of the French Navy * Vauquelin Square, in Montreal, Canada See also * Jean Wauquelin (died 1452), French writer and translator * Michel Gauquelin The Mars e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1573 Births
Year 1573 ( MDLXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 25 (22nd day of 12th month of Genki 3 – At the Battle of Mikatagahara in Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu. * January 28 ** Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning religious freedom in Poland. ** The Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt, started by Matija Gubec, breaks out against the Croatian nobility, but is suppressed after 18 days.Vjekoslav Klaić, ''History of the Croats'', Volume 5 (Matica hrvatska, 1988) p.375 * February 2 – The Wanli Era begins in Ming dynasty China on the first New Year after 9-year-old Zhu Yijun ascends the throne. * February 6 – In the battle of Kerestinec, General Gašpar Alapić defeats the rebel troops led by Gubec. * February 9 – Croatian troops, led by General Alapic, defeat the peasant rebellion in the Battle of Stubica, then begin a violent campaign of veng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism'', p. 58, Tate Publishing, 2003. In contrast to the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa, in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the Sublim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred De Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.His names are often reversed "Louis Charles Alfred de Musset": see "(Louis Charles) Alfred de Musset" (bio), Biography.com, 2007, webpageBio9413."Chessville – Alfred de Musset: Romantic Player", Robert T. Tuohey, Chessville.com, 2006, webpage: . Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel ''La Confession d'un enfant du siècle'' (''The Confession of a Child of the Century''). Biography Musset was born in Paris. His family was upper-class but poor; his father worked in various key government positions, but never gave his son any money. Musset's mother came from similar circumstances, and her role as a society hostess – for example her drawing-room parties, luncheons and dinners held in the Musset residence – left a lasting impression on young Alfred. An early indication of his boyhood talents was his fondness for acting imprompt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prosper Poitevin
Prosper may refer to: __NOTOC__ Places in the United States * Prosper, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Prosper, Minnesota, an unincorporated community * Prosper, North Dakota, an unincorporated community * Prosper, Oregon, an unincorporated community * Prosper, Texas, a town People * Prosper (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Other uses * PROSPER, a computer programming language invented by Earl Isaac in the early 1970s * ''Prosper'' (TV series), a 2024 Australian TV series * Prosper Marketplace, a business that allows online person-to-person lending and borrowing See also * Prosperity Prosperity is the flourishing, thriving, good fortune and successful social status. Prosperity often produces profuse wealth including other factors which can be profusely wealthy in all degrees, such as happiness and health. Competing notions ..., a state of overall flourishing and good fortune * Prospero, a character in Shakespeare's play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenglet Dufresnoy
Lenglet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Lenglet (born 1968), French chief superintendent and novelist * Clément Lenglet (born 1995), French footballer * Raphaël Lenglet Raphaël Lenglet (born 21 October 1976) is a French actor. He is best known for his starring roles in French police television series. On '' Les Bleus'' he plays small-time hood turned rookie policeman, Alex Moreno and on '' Candice Renoir'' he ... (born 1975), French actor * Olivier Lenglet (born 1960), French fencer {{surname Surnames of French origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Brossette
Claude Brossette, seigneur de Varennes d'Appetour (7 November 1671 in Theizé, Lyonnais – 1743) was a French lawyer and writer. He was educated at the ''Collège de la Trinité'' in Lyon and joined the Jesuits before turning to law. In 1700 he founded the ''Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Lyon'', where he remained a bibliothecarian until 1743, and whose secretary he was appointed in 1724. Brossette was a man of far-reaching connections, exchanging letters with Academy President Bouhier, Abbot Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, Olivet and Father Vanière from Toulouse. Between 1699 and 1710 he was a regular correspondent of Paris poet and satirist Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Boileau, whose works he edited with commentaries. Their correspondence was published in 1770 by François Louis Cizeron Rival. He was acquainted with François de Lamoignon and Bernard de La Monnoye from the Académie Française, and with Jean-Baptiste Rousseau. Later his reach widened; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Elzevir
Elzevir is the name of a family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The duodecimo series of "Elzevirs" became very famous and very desirable among bibliophiles, who sought to obtain the tallest and freshest copies of these tiny books. Although it appears the family was involved with the book trade as early as the 16th century, it is only known for its work in some detail beginning with Lodewijk Elzevir (also called Louis). The family ceased printing in 1712, but a contemporary publisher, Elsevier (founded in 1880), took over, for marketing purposes, the name and logo of this early modern business, but without having any real historical connections to it. History Early history In an age of non-standardized spelling, the name of the family was most often spelled Elsevier, or Elzevier, and their French editions mostly retain this name; but the name was gradually corrupted in English into Elzevir as a generic term for their books. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartuffe
''Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite'' (; , ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy (or more specifically, a farce) by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. History Molière performed his first version of ''Tartuffe'' in 1664. Almost immediately following its performance that same year at Versailles' grand fêtes (The Party of the Delights of the Enchanted Island/''Les fêtes des plaisirs de l'ile enchantée''), King Louis XIV suppressed it, probably under the influence of the archbishop of Paris, Paul Philippe Hardouin de Beaumont de Péréfixe, the King's confessor and former tutor. While the king had little personal interest in suppressing the play, he did so because, as stated in the official account of the fête: although it was found to be extremely diverting, the king recognized so much conformity between those that a true devotion leads on the path to heaven and those t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Rapin
René Rapin (1621–1687) was a French Jesuit and writer. He was born at Tours and entered the Society of Jesus in 1639. He taught rhetoric, and wrote extensively both in verse and prose. Works His first production, ''Eclogæ Sacræ'' (Paris, 1659), won him the title of the Second Theocritus, and his poem on gardens, ''Hortorum libri IV'' (Paris, 1665), twice translated into English (London, 1673; Cambridge, 1706), placed him among the foremost Latin versifiers. Of his critical essays, the best known are: ''Observations sur les poèmes d'Homère et de Virgile'' (Paris, 1669); ''Réflexions sur l'usage de l'éloquence de ce temps'' (Paris, 1672); ''Réflexions sur la poétique d'Aristote et sur les ouvrages des poétes anciens et modernes'' (Paris, 1674). He is also the author of several theological and ascetic treatises like ''De nova doctrina dissertatio seu Evangelium Jansenistarum'' (Paris, 1656); ''L'esprit du christianisme'' (Paris, 1672); ''La perfection du christianisme' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
