Jean Barbier d'Aucour
Jean Barbier d'Aucour (born September 1, 1641 in Langres , † September 13, 1694 in Paris ) was a French writer and member of the Académie française .
life and work
Jean Barbier d'Aucour, who was not wealthy, left Langres at the age of 14, attended high school in Dijon and studied law in Paris. Well-known literary historians consider him to be the author of the critical commentary ( Observations sur une comedie de Moliere, intitulée, Le festin de Pierre ) published in 1665 under the pseudonym Sieur de Rochemont on Molière's play Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre . In 1666 he intervened in the dispute between Jean Racine and Port-Royal to defend the Jansenists . He became known in 1671 through his review (on 400 pages) of the book Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène by Dominique Bouhours under the title Sentiments de Cléante sur les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène , behind which there is also the contrast between the Jansenists hid barber d'Aucour and the Jesuit Bouhours. After this masterpiece, in which he convicted Bouhours of plagiarism, among other things, he was hired by Jean-Baptiste Colbert as tutor of his fourth son, Jean-Jules-Armand Colbert, Marquis de Blainville . Colbert's protection helped him to be elected to the Académie française in 1683 (seat no. 33). Colbert's death in 1690 ruined him. Four years later he died at the age of 53.
In 1674, under the pseudonym de Bonne-Foy, he published a work against the coming system : Réflexions sur un livre intitulé Entretien d'un abbé commendataire & d'un religieux, sur les commandes.
literature
- Jean Doujat: Réponse au discours de réception de Jean Barbier d'Aucour November 29, 1683 [1]
- Claude-François Lambert (1705–1765): Histoire littéraire du règne de Louis XIV . Vol. 2. Paris 1751, pp. 413-417.
- Julien Munier-Jolain: Vieux avocats, vieux procès. Récits dédiés à Me Allou . Paris 1879.
Web links
- Information on Jean Barbier d'Aucour in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about Jean Barbier d'Aucour in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barber d'Aucour, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and member of the Académie française |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1641 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langres |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1694 |
| Place of death | Paris |