Etienne Tabourot

Etienne Tabourot

Étienne Tabourot des Accords (* 1549 in Dijon , † 1590 in Dijon) was a French writer.

life and work

Tabourot studied in Paris ( Collège de Bourgogne ) and Toulouse , made a trip to Italy and then was a lawyer in Dijon. At the age of 18 he published a volume of poetry under the title Synathrisie in which he juggled complicated writing techniques. Because of his early death, his literary work remained unfinished. He called the main work, published in the first version in 1582, Bigarrures (literally: colorful pied). His self-image was philological; He wanted to write a textbook on rhetoric that was pleasant to read, and then proceed with it himself (which he did to some extent).

With his Bigarrures, Tabourot created the world's first known book about puns (language and word games). It deals with equivoques (allusions), rebus , spoonerism (French: contrepèterie , used for the first time in Tabourot), anagram , leonic verses (which rhyme in the middle and at the end, with him very complicated), acrostic , etc. So it applies also as the forefather of 'Pataphysics and forerunner of the Oulipo group and has recently received a lot of attention from research.

Tabourot was the nephew of the dance book author Thoinot Arbeau .

Works

• La synathrisie alias recueil confuz , Dijon 1567; Rouen, Michel Tertulier, 1579 (under the pseudonym Jean des Planches).
• Les Bigarrures , Paris 1582 (numerous editions).
  • Les Bigarrures. Premier livre , ed. by Francis Goyet, Genève, Droz, 1986 (facsimile of the edition of 1588; 63 + 516 pages).
  • Les Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords. Quatrième livre , Paris, Jean Richer, 1585 (there was no second or third book; apparently the reader should be fooled).
  • Les Bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords. Quatrième Livre avec Les Apophthegmes du Sr Gaulard . Édition collective par le Groupe Renaissance & Âge classique (GRAC) de l'Université Lyon II, coordonnée par Gabriel-André Pérouse , Paris, Champion, 2004.
  • Les bigarrures du Seigneur des Accords avec les Apophtegmes du Sieur Gaulard et les Escraignes dijonnoises , revus sur les éditions originales de 1583, 1584, 1585 et 1588, augmentés de notes de divers commentateurs et précédés de notes de divers commentateurs, ed. by Guillaume Colletet (1598–1659), Brussels 1866; Geneva, Slatkine, 1969 (the Apophthegmata [aphorisms] first published posthumously in 1614).
• Les Touches , 1585 (satirical epigrams; touche = touch in the sport of fencing, here "appropriate" characterization; with "contretouches", ie a second, corrective assessment).
• Escraignes dijonnoises , critical ed. by Clémence Ménot, Master's thesis University of Lyon 2, 2004 (first in 1588, it is often rough, popular stories; escraignes = étrennes "gifts").

literature

• Georges Choptrayanovitch, Etienne Tabourot des Accords (1549-1590). Etude sur sa vie et son oeuvre littéraire , Thèse, Dijon, 1935; Geneva, Slatkine, 1970 (225 pages).
• Robert Sabatier, La Poésie du XVIe siècle , Paris, Albin Michel, 1975, pp. 254-255.
• Pierre Guiraud, Les jeux de mots, Paris, PUF, 1976 (Que sais-je? 1656).
• Tabourot, seigneur des Accords. Un Bourguignon poète de la fin de la Renaissance , ed. by Michel Simonin and François Moureau, Paris, Klincksieck, 1990 (files from a colloquium in Dijon from 1988).
• Hope H. Glidden, "Épigramme et joutes d'esprit: les Touches d'Estienne Tabourot", in: Bulletin de l'Association d'étude sur l'humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance 51-52, 2000, p. 153 -163.
• Tabourot , ed. by the Association d'étude sur l'Humanisme, la Réforme et la Renaissance and Gabriel André Pérouse , in: Réforme, Humanisme, Renaissance 25, 51–52, 2000/2001 (special issue).
• Michel Simonin, "Etienne Tabourot", in: Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française , ed. by Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, Paris, Larousse, 2001, pp. 1861–1862.

Web links

• Literature by and about Étienne Tabourot in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)