Jean-François Sarasin

Jean-François Sarasin (also: Sarrasin, Sarrazin ) (* December 25, 1614 in Caen , † December 5, 1654 in Pézenas ) was a French writer and precious poet of the pre-classical period.

life and work

Sarasin came from a middle-class family in Normandy . He studied in Caen and then went to Paris. There he frequented the literary salons , namely the salon of Madeleine de Scudéry , with whose brother Georges he was friends. Among the noble, he was called Amilcar . He was considered extremely witty and earned the reputation of a second Voiture (also: Sous-Voiture or Voiture du Marais ). Until 1643 he was in the service of Foreign Minister Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny , from around 1649 secretary to Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti . Like Jacques Esprit , he went to Pézenas with Conti in 1654, but died there of a fever in the same year, not even at the age of forty.

Paul Pellisson organized an edition of his works in 1656, provided with an appreciative foreword. The 1926 edition of the work, which is still valid today, comes from Paul Festugière (1869–1950). As a result of the re-evaluation of the preciousness wrongly mocked by Molière , Sarasin has also come increasingly into the focus of literary studies in recent years.

Works

• Oeuvres de J. Fr. Sarasin . 2 vols. 1. Poésies. 2. Oeuvres en prose. Edited by Paul Festugière. Edouard Champion, Paris 1926. (Review by Fernand Desonay, in: Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 5, 1926, pp. 582–583)

literature

• Albert Mnung: Jean-François Sarasin's life and works, his time and society . Critical contribution to the French literary and cultural history of the XVII. Century using unprinted sources. 2 vols. Niemeyer, Halle an der Saale 1902–1904. (Review by Philipp August Becker in: Journal for French Language and Literature 24, 1902, pp. 155–177; 28, 1905, pp. 100–113)
• Roger Lathuillère: La préciosité. Etude historique et linguistique . Droz, Geneva 1966.
• Alain Niderst (1938–2014): Madeleine de Scudéry, Paul Pellisson et leur monde . PUF, Paris 1976.
• Alain Génetiot (* 1965): Les genres lyriques mondains 1630–1660. Etude des poésies de Voiture, Vion d'Alibray, Sarrasin et Scarron . Droz, Geneva 1990.

Manual literature

• Alain Viala , in: Laffont-Bompiani. Le nouveau dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays , Paris 1994, pp. 2868-2869 (Bouquins series).
• Alain Viala, in: Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française , ed. by Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, Paris, Larousse, 2001, pp. 1726–1727.

Web links

• Information on Jean-François Sarasin in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Literature by and about Jean-François Sarasin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)