Guy Du Faur de Pibrac

Guy Du Faur, seigneur de Pibrac, in an etching by Pierre Daret

Guy Du Faur de Pibrac or Guy Du Faur, seigneur de Pibrac (* 1529 in Pibrac ( Haute-Garonne ), † May 27, 1584 in Paris ) was a French lawyer and judge, diplomat and poet.

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Guy Du Faur came from an old-established magistrate family from Pibrac. His father was Pierre du Faur de Pibrac, seigneur de Pibrac († 1557) and his mother was born Gauside Douce (1495-1544). The parents had been married since March 7, 1516.

Guy Du Faur studied law with Jacques Cujas , Adrianus Turnebus in Toulouse and from 1546 with Andrea Alciato in Pavia . Toulouse avec Mesmes, Turnèbe, Lambin and Honoré Chastelain.

He wins an award from the Académie des Jeux floraux, the Eglantine aux Jeux floraux, a prize for successful poetry .

In 1548 he was admitted to the Toulouse court . On October 30, 1553 he was conseiller au parlement at the local court. Later, on March 26, 1557, he rose in the hierarchy to juge-maje in a higher judicial office. Toulouse was known in legal historiography for the fact that the parliament there sought to defend its rights within a centralized kingship that was struggling for its unity at the same time. Guy Du Faur was founded in 1562 as one of three representatives of King Charles IX. sent from France to the Council of Trent . On October 21, 1554 he married Jeanne de Custos de Tarabelle, the daughter of Pierre de Custos and Marie Berthier. The couple had two daughters and one son.

In April 1559 he spoke in favor of religious tolerance, consequently he was arrested together with Anne du Bourg and sent to the Bastille on behalf of Henry II . But he stayed there only a short time. The king died on July 10, 1559, his successor was Franz II.

Then in 1565 he was appointed Advocate General to the Parlement of Paris, avocat général du roi au Parlement de Paris with a salary of 2000 livres . At the request of the Chancellor of France , chancelier de France Michel de L'Hôpital , he was then appointed, in 1570, Council of State, conseiller d'État .

In 1573 Charles IX sent him . - he was king of France from 1560 to 1574 - to become chancellor of his brother Heinrich, he was the fourth son of Henry II of France and his wife Catherine of Medici , to Poland . Guy Du Faur began his journey on November 3, 1573, which took him via Speyer , Heidelberg , Worms , Mainz , Frankfurt am Main , then over Christmas to Fulda and finally via Frankfurt (Oder) to Poland, where he was on January 24 Arrived in 1574. Guy Du Faur, who was fluent in Latin, gained a lot of recognition and negotiation skills in Poland. On the other hand, his second visit to Poland in 1575 was less successful.

The philosopher and essayist Michel de Montaigne was friends with Guy Du Faur de Pibrac.

In Paris in 1576 he was involved in the expansion and development of the Académie du Palais . Because after the death of Charles IX. Guy du Faur led the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, originally founded in 1570, now under the patronage of Henry III. from 1576 to 1585 renamed as Académie du Palais without changing its old statutes in the Louvre .

Works (selection)

• Les plaisirs de la vie rustique. ( books.google.de )
• Quatrains moraux.
• Cinquante quatrains, contenant préceptes et enseignements utiles pour la vie de l'homme, composés à l'imitation de Phocylides, Epicharmus et autres poètes grecs. Paris 1574.
• Oratio habita in concilia Tridentino. Paris 1562.
• Recueil des points principaux des deux remontrances faites en la cour à l'ouverture du parlement de 1569. 1570.
• Discours de l'âme et des sciences, dans le Recueil de plusieurs pièces. 1635.
• Ornatissimi cuiusdam viri De rebus Gallicis ad Stanislaum Eluidium epistola. 1573.

literature

• Alban Cabos: Guy du Faur de Pibrac, un magistrat poète au 16e siècle (1529–1584). É. Champion, Paris 1922.
• Nathalie Dauvois: L'Humanisme à Toulouse (1480–1596). Actes du colloque international de Toulouse, May 2004, réunis par Nathalie Dauvois (= Colloques, congres et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne. Vol. 54). Editions Honoré Champion, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-7453-1396-7 .
• S. Davidson: Guy Du Faur de Pibrac et "Les Plaisirs de la vie rustique". In: L'humanisme à Toulouse (1480–1596). Actes 2004, pp. 555-572.

Web links

Commons : Guy Du Faur de Pibrac  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Histoire illustrée de Pibrac. Guy Du FAUR de Pibrac (1528–1584)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guy Du Faur de Pibrac les quatrains les plaisirsb de la vie rustique et autres poésies. Droz, 2004, excerpts as a short biography in French from Loris Petris (ed.): Guy du Faur Pibrac (seigneur de) Les quatrains; Les plaisirs de la vie rustique et autres poésies. Librairie Droz, Genève 2004, ISBN 2-600-00931-0 . ( Online ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) 
2. ↑ Biographical data of Guy Du Faur de Pibrac on geneanet.org ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Journées du Patrimoine. ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Roman Schnur: The role of lawyers in the emergence of the modern state. Duncker & Humblot, 1986, ISBN 3-428-06044-X , p. 858.
5. ↑ actually the third conference period in Trento from 1562 to 1563.
6. ^ Institut Français de L'Éducation. Pibrac
7. ^ Dikka Berven: Reading Montaigne. Taylor & Francis, 1995, ISBN 0-8153-1843-X , pp. 209 f.
8. ↑ L. Willett: Métamorphoses des cabinets humanistes: Pibrac et Montaigne. In: L'humanisme à Toulouse (1480–1596). Actes 2004, pp. 573-586.