Antoine d'Abbatia

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Antoine d'Abbatia (* around 1650 in Toulouse , † after 1694) was a French poet .

Antoine d'Abbatia was the son of Jean d'Abbatia and Jeanne de Gaichalet and came from a respected family from Toulouse, whose members in the 16th and 17th centuries belonged to the Toulouse magistrate, the legal profession and the military. The year of birth and death are uncertain. December 1652 is also given as the year of birth and June 11, 1656 as the baptism date.

Antoine d'Abbatia was a lawyer in the Toulouse Parliament. He also emerged as a poet and wrote various verses on the basis of which he was awarded the Jeux floraux , an annual poetry competition held in Toulouse in 1682, 1684 and 1689 . He was then allowed to call himself maître ès jeux floraux , as the statutes granted every three-time prize winner the use of this title, which he retained in 1694 when the French King Louis XIV raised the competition to the rank of academy.

Three of his award-winning poems, moral allegories in the lyric form of the Chants Royaux with stanzas , have been published in the following poetry collections:

  • Le triomphe de l'églantine (Toulouse 1682, printed by Guillaume Bosc); contains David amoureux , for which Abbatia received the "Eglantine" (wine rose). One copy is recorded in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Toulouse.
  • Le triomphe de la violette (Toulouse 1684); contains clytria , for which he received the "violet" ( violet ); the work is considered lost.
  • Le triomphe du souci (Toulouse 1689); for this he received the "marigold" ( souci ); the title of the poem has not survived and the work is considered lost.

literature

  • A. Degert: Abbatia 1) . In: Dictionnaire de biographie française . Vol. 1 (1932), Col. 64.
  • Abbatia (Antoine D ') . In: biography toulousaine. Michaud, Paris 1823, Vol. 1, pp. 1-2.
  • Abbatia (Antoine D ') . In: Nouvelle biography universelle. Firmin Didot, Paris 1852, vol. 1, col. 49.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D'ABBATIA (Antoine), avocat au Parlement (1652-1694 -....) . In: Axel Duboul: Les deux siècles de l'Académie des jeux floraux. Édouard Privat, Toulouse 1901. Vol. 2, pp. 397-398.
  2. ↑ Catalog entry of the French network system
personal data
SURNAME Abbatia, Antoine d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet and lawyer in Toulouse
DATE OF BIRTH around 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH after 1694