François de Cauvigny Colomby

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François de Cauvigny Colomby (also: François de Colomby ) (* 1589 in Caen ; † 1649 ) was a French poet, translator, courtier and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Colomby was a relative of the poet François de Malherbe , 30 years his senior , with whom he entered into a relationship in 1605. He had an influential relative in the royal treasurer Thomas Morant and found a patron in Cardinal Jacques-Davy Duperron . He was the agent of the Duke of Luynes . In 1620 he became a member of the State Council and court and state speaker, a batch created especially for him. As a permanent guest in the literary salon of the Marquise de Rambouillet and as a favorite of Cardinal Richelieu , he became a founding member of the Académie française in 1634 (seat no. 17).

As a rationalist, Colomby turned enlighteningly against the superstition of astrology (reissued in 1623). In a paper from 1631 he argued for the divine right of the king and theoretically prepared absolutism . He was most successful as a translator from Latin, namely the world history of Pompeius Trogus handed down by Marcus Iunianus Iustinus , a text that has been published several times.

Works

  • Observations politiques, topographiques et historiques sur Tacite . Paris 1613. (Commentary on the first chapters of the Annals of Tacitus , with translation)
  • Réfutation de l'astrologie judiciaire . Divisée en trois traittez contre les astrologues de ce temps. Dédié à la reyne regente, by F. de Cauvigny sieur de Colomby. Paris 1614.
    • Réfutation de l'astrologie judiciaire . Livre, ou se voyent les faussetés des iugements faicts par les plus celebres matematiciens du dernier siecle, sur les horoscopes des plus grands princes de l'Europe. Paris 1623.
  • De l'autorité des roys. Premier discours . Dédié au très Chrestien roy de France & de Navarre Louis XIII. Paris 1631.
  • Recueil de lettres nouvelles , de messieurs Malherbe. Coulomby. Boisrobert. Moliere. Plassac. Brun. Silhon . Godeau. Conac. Breval. Faret. Racan. Balzac. Auvray. Et autres. Dédié a Monseigneur le cardinal de Richelieu. Paris 1639, pp. 93-170.

As translator

  • L'Histoire universelle de Trogue Pompée réduite en abrégé by Justin . Paris 1616, 1617, 1666, 1672. Lyon 1675, 1690. Rouen 1682.
  • De l'unité de l'Eglise . Livre composé par S. Augustin Evesque d'Hippone, contre les Donatistes. Traduict par Messire François de Cauvigny, Seigneur de Coulomby, Conseiller du Roy en son Conseil d'Estat, & son orateur. Paris 1623. (by Augustine of Hippo )
  • Paraphrase sur les Lamentations du prophete Jeremie ... Par messire François de Chauvigny, seigneur de Coulomby. Paris 1645.

literature

  • Jean Mesnard: Colomby et la diffusion de la Doctrine Malherbienne . In: Annales de Normandie 9, 1977, pp. 29-35.
  • François Monnier: François de Colomby (1588-1649) . In: Revue Française d'Histoire des Idées Politiques 46, 2017, pp. 261–279.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean Jehasse: Guez de Balzac et le génie romain . Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne 1977, pp. 103-104
personal data
SURNAME Colomby, François de Cauvigny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cauvigny Colomby, François de; Colomby, François de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet, translator, courtier and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH 1589
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen
DATE OF DEATH 1649