Auger de Mauléon Granier

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Auger de Mauléon Granier (also: Moléon or Granier ) (* around or after 1600 ; † 1650 ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, bibliophile, editor, translator and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Origin and identity

Auger de Mauléon was born in the Bresse . He came from a southern French aristocratic family, which probably went back to Mauléon Castle in the Basque Mauléon-Licharre (branch line in Mauléon-Barousse ). A Jean de Mauléon was 1523-1551 bishop of Comminges . Auger's father, François de Mauléon, baron de Durban, was lord of the castle in Durban-sur-Arize , 25 km north-west of Foix . He died in 1586. Auger had two older brothers, Paul de Mauléon, baron de Durban (* 1560) and François de Mauléon, seigneur de La Cour (courtier, with a branch in Castelnau-Durban ). He himself, Auger de Mauléon, sieur de Granier, was born before 1587. His mother was from the Ysalguier family in Toulouse. This localization in southern France corresponds to the majority of his publications (on the Archbishop of Toulouse, Paul de Foix, 1528–1584, and his secretary, Cardinal Arnaud d'Ossat , 1537–1604, as well as on Margaret of Valois ). The indication of its origin from the Bresse from Paul Pellisson (1652) must be questioned. Pellisson did not enter the academy until 1653 and probably did not know Mauléon personally.

Mauléon must not be confused with the author "Sieur de Moléon" (alias Jean-Baptiste Lebrun-Desmarettes, 1651–1731), who published Voyages liturgiques de France in 1718 in Paris .

Libertine and editor

Mauléon belonged to the group of libertines around Pierre Gassendi and François de La Mothe le Vayer , who met from 1517 in the salon of the brothers Pierre Dupuy (1582-1651) and Jacques Dupuy. He was known as a bibliophile and editor of important manuscripts, especially the memoirs of Margaret of Valois. The most important printers he worked with were Charles Chappellain and Jérémie Bouillerot († 1657). In addition to the works listed below, he is considered a collaborator on the second edition of the works of François de Malherbe , arranged by François d'Arbaud de Porchères , on the Histoire de la Guerre des Flandres by Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio , on the works of Jacques-Auguste de Thou and on posthumous works by Francis Bacon (the latter in dispute with Philippe Fortin de La Hoguette, 1585–1666).

9 months Académie française

Mauléon was elected to the first season of the Académie française (seat No. 38) on September 3, 1635, but was expelled in May 1636 at the insistence of Richelieu for embezzlement, which allegedly was money from Carmelites. The exact background is not known.

Works

editor

  • Lettres de l'illustrissime et reverendissime cardinal d'Ossat, évêque de Bayeux, au roy Henri le Grand et à M. de Villeroy, depuis l'année 1594 jusques à l'année 1604 . Jérémie Bouillerot, Paris 1624.
  • Les Lettres de messire Paul de Foix, archevesque de Tolose, & ambassadeur pour le roy auprès du pape Grégoire XIII, escrites au roi Henry III . Charles Chappelain, Paris 1628.
    • (later edition) Les Lettres de messire Paul de Foix, archevêque de Tolose et ambassadeur pour le roi auprès du pape Grégoire XIII, écrites au roi Henri III . Paris A. de Sommaville, Paris 1637.
  • Mémoires de la pure Marguerite . Charles Chappellain, Paris 1628, 1649, 1658, 1666, 1679.

translator

  • (from Spanish) Discours du père Iean Mariana des grands défauts qui sont en la forme du gouvernement des Iésuites . Paris 1625. ( Juan de Mariana )
    • (from French into Italian) Discorso del Padre Giovanni Mariana, Giesuita spagnuolo intorno a 'grand'errori, che sono nella forma del governo de i Giesuiti . Bordeaux 1625.

literature

  • Paul Colomiés: Bibliothèque choisie . 1682, pp. 166-167.
  • Paul Pellisson: Histoire de l'Académie française . Vol. 1. Paris 1743, pp. 203-205.
  • René Pintard : Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle . Slatkine, Geneva 2000, pp. 180-181.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notice de personne in catalogue.bnf.fr, accessed on June 2, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Mauléon Granier, Auger de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moléon Granier, Auger de; Granier, Auger de Mauléon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic clergyman, bibliophile, editor, translator and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
DATE OF DEATH 1650