Guillaume Des Autels

Guillaume Des Autels

Guillaume Des Autels (* 1529 in Charolles , † around 1580) was a French poet and Romanist .

life and work

Des Autels (also: Des Autelz or Desautels) came from Burgundy. He studied in Valence . As a poet, he began in the manner of Clément Marot , but then, under the influence of his friend Pontus de Tyard, moved towards Pléiade . In the turmoil of religion he stood on the Catholic side and wrote appeals to the people in 1559 and 1560 on behalf of Charles de Lorraine-Guise . His novel Mythistoire Barragouyne de Fanfreluche et Gaudichon is attracting increasing attention in literary studies (Clément 2005).

Linguistics knows Des Autels as a defender of traditional orthography against radical attempts at reform. He fought a polemical battle with the grammarian and orthography reformer Louis Meigret . Meigret had (following detailed suggestions in his Traité 1542, 1545) literally challenged the reform opponents in the preface to his Lucian translation ( Le Menteur ) from 1548. Des Autels accepted the challenge and in the same year published De l'antique écriture de la langue françoise et de sa poésie, contre l'orthographe des Maigretistes (originally: Contre Meigret. Brève épître touchant aucuns points de la langue françoise , modified by the publisher ). This work has been lost, but can be partially reconstructed through the numerous quotations in Meigret's answer ( Défenses de Louis Meigret 1550). Des Autel's second attack ( Réplique de Guillaume des Autels of August 20, 1550), which Meigret parried with his Réponse de Louis Meigret of 1551, has survived. The argumentation traced in Hausmann 1980, pp. 89–112 shows that Des Autels took the far more reasonable position and also knew how to put forward serious linguistic arguments against the proven grammarian Meigret.

In Charolles , a college is named after Guillaume des Autels.

Works

• Repos de plus grand travail , Lyon 1550, 1560 (seal)
• Replique de Guillaume Des Autelz aux furieuses défenses de Louis Meigret. Avec la suite du Repos de l'autheur , Lyon 1551 (polemic plus poetry)
• Amoureux repos , Lyon 1553 (seal, including: Pontus de Tyard, Aux poètes françois en faveur de Guillaume Des Autelz)
• Encomium Galliae Belgicae. Versiculi . Guillaume Altario Carolate, Antwerp 1559; also in: Delitiae C. poetarum gallorum, ed. by Jan Gruter, Frankfurt am Main 1609
• Remonstrance au peuple françoys de son devoir en ce temps envers la majesté du roy, à laquelle sont adjoustez troys éloges de la paix, de la trefve et de la guerre , Paris 1559
• Harengue au Peuple Francois contre la rebellion , Paris 1560 ( http://recherche.univ-lyon2.fr/grac/217-La-Harangue-peuple-francois-Guillaume-Des-Autels-1560-saisie-Guillaume-De-Sauza .html )
• La Recreation et passetemps des tristes, pour resjouyr les melencoliques, lire les choses plaisantes, traictans de l'art de aymer, et apprendre le vray art de poésie , Paris 1573, 1862
• Mythistoire Barragouyne de Fanfreluche et Gaudichon , Lyon 1574, 1578; Cambridge, Mass. 1962

literature

• Louis Meigret , Traite touchant le commun usage de l'escriture françoise , Paris 1542, 1545
• Defenses de Louis Meigret touchant son orthographie Françoeze, contre les censures e calõnies de Glaumalis du Vezelet e de ses adherans , Paris 1550
• Reponse de Louís Meigret à la dezesperée repliqe de Glaomalis de Vezelet, transformé en Gyllaome des Aotels , Paris 1551
• Adèle Souchier, Denise de Romans et Guillaume des Autelz , Paris 1875, Geneva 1971 (novel)
• Hans Hartmann, Guillaume des Autels (529-1581?). A French poet and humanist , Zurich 1907, Geneva 1969
• Margaret LM Young, Guillaume Des Autelz. A study of his life and works , Geneva 1961
• Enea Balmas , Motivi danteschi nell '"Eloge de la guerre" by Guillaume des Autelz, in: Studi in onore di Italo Siciliano , Florence 1966, pp. 23-45
• Franz Josef Hausmann , Louis Meigret. Humaniste et linguiste , Tübingen 1980 (pp. 89–112)
• Robert Horville, Le XVIe siècle 1494-1598. Une naissance dans la continuité, in: Histoire de la littérature française , ed. by Henri Mitterand , Paris 1988, pp. 124–424 (here: p. 202)
• Michèle Clément, La Mythistoire barragouyne de Fanfreluche et Gaudichon ou Comment inventer une «prose poétique», in: Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 67, 2005, pp. 561-573

Web links

• Literature by and about Guillaume Des Autels in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)