Honorat de Racan

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Honorat de Racan (born February 5, 1589 in Aubigné-Racan , † January 21, 1670 in Paris ) was a French writer and translator.

life and work

Honorat de Bueil, known as Marquis de Racan, grew up in the Manoir de Champmarin ( Aubigné-Racan , between Tours and Le Mans). At the age of 8 he lost his father, at 13 his mother. He went to court and became the king's page. As a favorite student of François de Malherbe , he wrote his only play in 1618, the shepherd's play Les Bergeries , which was a great success. From 1619 it was performed in the Hôtel de Bourgogne , from 1624 at the court. According to Pierre Voltz's judgment, it is still legible today.

In 1630 the "gentle Racan" retired to his castle La Roche-Racan (near Saint-Paterne-Racan in the Indre-et-Loire department ) and began his thirty years , motivated by the abbot of the nearby Cistercian monastery La Clarté-Dieu Translation of the Book of Psalms , “a monument to French poetry” (Jean-Pierre Chauveau).

Racan was a founding member of the Académie française from 1635 . Jean de La Fontaine was one of his admirers .

Works

  • Sept Psaumes , 1631.
  • Odes sacrées , 1651.
  • Cent neuf psaumes , 1654.
  • Poésies , critical ed. by Louis Arnould , Paris, Hachette, 1930.
  • Les Bergeries , critical ed. by Louis Arnould, Paris, Droz, 1937, 1991.
  • Vie de Monsieur Malherbe , ed. by Marie-France Quignard, Paris, Le Promeneur, 1991.
  • Œuvres complètes , critical ed. by Stéphane Macé, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2009 (1144 pages).

literature

  • Louis Arnould, Racan (1589-1670). Histoire anecdotique et critique de sa vie et de ses œuvres , Thèse Paris 1896, Genève, Slatkine Reprints, 1970.
    • Louis Arnould, Un Gentilhomme de lettres au XVIIe siècle. Honorat de Bueil, Seigneur de Racan , Paris, Colin, 1901 (2nd, streamlined edition of Thèse).
  • Valéry Larbaud , Notes sur Racan , Maestricht, AA Stols, 1928.
  • Pierre Voltz (* 1933), La comédie , Paris, A. Colin, 1964, pp. 45-46.
  • Jean-Charles Payen and Jean-Pierre Chauveau , La poésie des origines à 1715 , Paris, Armand Colin, 1968, pp. 134–135, 168–169 and 484–485.
  • Major works of French literature. Individual presentations and interpretations , ed. by Irene Schwendemann, Munich, Kindler, 1976, p. 157 (Honorat de Racan, Les Bergeries).
    • André Lagarde and Laurent Michard , XVIIe siècle. Les grands auteurs français. Anthologie et histoire littéraire , Paris, Bordas, 1985 (first 1951), pp. 31-33.
  • Pierre Robert, Racan en son pays , Chambray-Lès-Tours, CLD, 1991.
  • Jean-Pierre Ryngaert, “Honorat de Racan”, in: Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française , ed. by Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, Paris, Larousse, 2001 sv

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personal data
SURNAME Racan, Honorat de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bueil de Racan, Honorat de; Bueil, Honorat de; Racan, Honorat de Bueil de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1589
PLACE OF BIRTH Aubigné-Racan
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1670
Place of death Paris