Charles-Pierre Colardeau
Charles-Pierre Colardeau (born October 12, 1732 in Janville , † April 7, 1776 in Paris ) was a French poet, playwright and member of the Académie française .
life and work
Colardeau came from a middle-class family. He was the oldest of four children who were raised in Pithiviers by a maternal uncle, Canon Louis Regnard (1715–1789), doctor of theology and long-time pastor of the Church of Saint-Salomon after the early death of their parents . Colardeau attended the Jesuit school in Orléans , then in Meung-sur-Loire . When he was 18, he moved to the Collège de Beauvais in Paris. He did not complete a law degree, partly for health reasons, partly out of a tendency to literacy. His closest friends were the painter Gabriel François Doyen and the writer Claude-Joseph Dorat . He found patrons in Charles-Louis Marie de Coskaer Count La Vieuville (1697–1771) and his widow. His narrow poetic work, which was especially valued by femininity, earned him the election to the Académie française (seat no. 21) in 1776, but he died before official admission at the age of 43. Jean-François de La Harpe , his successor at the academy, and even more (the one who welcomed La Harpe) Jean-François Marmontel paid tribute to Colardeau in their academy speeches.
Works (selection)
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Lettre d'Héloïse à Abailard . Based on Pope. Paris 1758. [1] (after Alexander Pope : Eloisa to Abelard , 1717)
- (German) Letter from Heloise to Abelard . Gotha 1760 (German and French)
- Heroïde. Armide a Renaud . Paris 1758.
- Astarbé . Tragedy. 1758.
- Caliste . Tragedy. 1761.
- Le Patriotisme . Poem. 1762. [2]
- (Translator) Edward Young : Première nuit . Delalain, Paris 1770.
- Les hommes de Prométhée . Poem. Amsterdam 1775.
- Pierre Jabineau de la Voute (1721–1787, ed.): Oeuvres de Colardeau . 2 vols. Paris 1779.
literature
- Armand Bouvier: Le poète Colardeau (1732–1776). Sa vie, sa famille, ses amis, son pays, son temps, d'après ses lettres, des pièces d'archives et divers écrits . Orléans 1925.
- Écrire en Orléanais au XVIIIe siècle. Une anthology . Harmattan, Paris 2007, pp. 119-132.
- Andreas Wilhelm: Quite gray and black, and yet with illuminating nuances. A look at the tragic and lyric-tragic stage of France in 1760 . Haag + Herchen, Hanau 2018, pp. 94–99. (via Caliste)
Web links
- Information on Charles-Pierre Colardeau in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Charles-Pierre Colardeau in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Literature by and about Charles-Pierre Colardeau in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Inaugural speech by Colardeau's successor at the Académie française with appreciation of the predecessor , French
- Marmontels academy speech to welcome the successor of Colardeau with appreciation of the predecessor , French
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Colardeau, Charles-Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet, playwright and member of the Académie française |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Janville |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1776 |
| Place of death | Paris |