François de Gravelle

François de Gravelle , Sieur d'Arpentigny (* around 1545 in Germainville near Dreux , † 1608 in Arpentigny near Thimert-Gâtelles ), was a French author and philosopher in the 16./17. Century.

Son of Simon de Gravelle, Sieur de Germainville and Beauchesne, and Catherine de Bartonnier, he was the heir to the family estate. At first, like his father, he became a lawyer in the Paris Parliament . Deterred by the Bartholomew Night in 1572, he retired to the estate after the violent death of his Huguenot father in 1575. There he worked as a religious-political writer. He was also a sought-after adviser to Duke Franz Herkules (1555–1584), a younger brother of the French kings Franz II , Charles IX. and Heinrich III. In 1582 he married Marguerite de Colas and in 1585 bought the d'Arpentigny estate, where he died.

His books committed the royal rule to Christian teaching. He further promoted the reunification of the Protestants with the Catholics, which he had promised himself from King Henry IV . Therefore, he also worked with the Huguenot Philippe Duplessis-Mornay , for whom he obtained most of the books for his work.

The discussion of Macchiavelli's work on the necessary morality of royal politics is significant . De Gravelle also saw the causes of the civil war in France in his mind. He also wrote the history of philosophy Abrégé de philosophie ... , which was published in Paris in 1601 by Jérémie Périer .

Fonts

• Politiques royales , Lyon 1596 (dedicated to King Henry IV.)
• Abrégé de philosophie, phisique, métaphisique, morale, et divine sur la connaissance de l'homme & sa fin , Paris 1601 (dedicated to Charles de Bourbon-Soissons )

literature

• Alfred Burgardsmeier : The sources of the Abrégé of François de Gravelle , dissertation Bonn 1920
• Lucien Merlet: Bibliothèque chartraine antérieure du XIXème siècle , Eure-et-Loir 1971 [1]

Web link

• books.google Abrégé