François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire

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François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (also: Sainte-Aulaire ; born September 6, 1648 in Saint-Aulaire , † December 17, 1742 in Paris ) was a French officer, poet and member of the Académie française .

life and work

family

François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire came from a noble family of the Limousin . His younger brother André-Daniel de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1651-1734) was Bishop of Tulle . Two more distant relatives were bishops in the 18th century, Pierre de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1701–1751), Bishop of Tarbes , and Martial-Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1719–1798), Bishop of Poitiers , another Louis-Clair de Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire (1778-1854), was a member of the Académie française in the 19th century. Camille Jouhanneaud (1847–1928, from 1908 to 1919 president of the Société archéologique et historique du Limousin ) has shown that Saint-Aulaire was not, as is often assumed, in Aixe-sur-Vienne (another branch of the family lived there), but in Saint -Aulaire (northwest of Brive-la-Gaillarde ) and also corrected his year of birth from 1643 to 1648. The godfather was François de La Fayette, Bishop of Limoges , a relative of the mother.

In 1679, Saint-Aulaire married Marie de Fumel. He lost his wife in 1696, his eldest son in 1709, two other sons and his granddaughter Thérèse-Eulalie in 1739. He was left with her widower, Anne Pierre d'Harcourt, Marquis de Beuvron (1701–1783). He died in 1742 at the age of 94.

Officer and poet

Saint-Aulaire was first successful in the military career and made it to the aide-de-camp of Marshal Anne-Jules de Noailles (1697). From 1689 to 1713 he was lieutenant general (deputy to the provincial governor) of the Limousin. Around 1700 he said goodbye to soldier life and began a second career as a poet and man of letters. He frequented the literary salon of the Marquise de Lambert , with whose daughter his son was married, and the literary festivals that Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon-Condé organized in Sceaux . He belonged to the Société du Temple . In 1706 he was elected almost unanimously (but against Boileau's declared will ) to the Académie française (seat no. 15), which he owed primarily to influential women who appreciated his witty urbanity and perfect courtesy. His successor at the Academy, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan , paid tribute to Saint-Aulaire's personality in his inaugural address. Even Voltaire took him in 1733 to his little work Le Temple du Goût (The temple of taste) on. His casual poetry is widely published and difficult to find. Robert Sabatier mentions him briefly in his work La poésie du XVIIIe siècle.

Works

  • (With others) L'ami des Muses . Avignon 1758.
  • (With others) Les divertissements de Seaux . Ganeau, Paris 1712.
    • Suite des Divertissemens de Seaux contenant des chansons, des cantates & autres pieces de poësies. Avec la description des nuits qui s'y sont données, & les comedies qui s'y sont jouées. Ganeau, Paris 1725.

literature

  • Catherine Cessac and Manuel Couvreur (eds.): La Duchesse du Maine (1676–1753). Une mécène à la croisée des arts et des siècles . Ed. de l'Université de Bruxelles, Brussels 2003.
  • Camille Jouhanneaud: "Le Poète académicien Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire (1648-1742)". In: Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique du Limousin 61, 2, 1912, pp. 475–489. (Digitized on Gallica) [2]
  • Joseph Nadaud (1712-1775): Nobiliaire du diocèse et de la généralité de Limoges . Vol. 1. Limoges 1882, pp. 156-159.
  • Robert Sabatier: La poésie du XVIIIe siècle . Albin Michel, Paris 1975, p. 41.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Saint-Aulaire, François-Joseph de Beaupoil de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sainte-Aulaire, François-Joseph de Beaupoil de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French officer, poet and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Aulaire
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1742
Place of death Paris