Jean Bouchet

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Jean Bouchet (born January 31, 1476 in Poitiers , † 1557 ibid) was a French writer and historian.

life and work

Bouchet stayed at the court of King Louis XII from 1498 to 1507 . in Lyon . Then he was a lawyer in Poitiers and historian of the La Trémoille family . His main historical work are the Annales d'Aquitaine . In addition, Bouchet was a very fruitful writer. His book Les Regnars traversant les perilleuses voies des folles fiances du monde was wrongly attributed to its author Sebastian Brant because of its resemblance to the Ship of Fools . In a 2001 colloquium on the importance of Poitou for Rabelais , Bouchet was recognized as a friend of Rabelais. Bouchet is poetically regarded as the last of the “Grands Rhétoriqueurs” (Paul Zumthor). The Epistres Morales et Familieres du Traverseur can be cited as an example of his numerous moralizing texts ( Traverseur is the pseudonym of the author because of the constant motif of the journey of initiation in many of his works). Although the author of the second series, Bouchet has received significant research attention since the pioneering work of Paul Zumthor , Michael Screech, and Jennifer Britnell .

Works (modern editions)

  • La déploration de l'Eglise militante , critical ed. by Jennifer Britnell, Geneva, Droz, 1991.
  • Le Temple de Bonne Renommée , critical ed. by Giovanna Bellati, Milan, Vita e pensiero, 1992.

Collected Works

  • Le Jugement poetic de l'honneur femenin et sejour des illustres claires et honnestes Dames (Poitiers, 1538) , critical ed. by Adrian Armstrong, Paris, Champion, 2006 (Œuvres complètes 1).
  • Le Labirynth de fortune et Sejour des trois nobles dames (1522) , ed. by Pascale Chiron and Nathalie Dauvois, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2015 (Œuvres complètes 2).

Planned

  • Les Regnars traversant les perilleuses voies des folles fiances du monde , Paris, A. Vérard, [1503–1504].
  • Epistre envoyee par feu Henry roy d'Angleterre à Henry son filz huytiesme de ce nom .
  • Les Annales d'Aquitaine , Poitiers, E. de Marnef et J. Bouchet, 1524.
  • Le Panegyric du Chevallier sans reproche , Poitiers, J. Bouchet, 1528.
  • Epistres Morales et Familieres du Traverseur , Poitiers, Jacques Bouchet et J. et E. de Marnef, 1545.
  • Les Triomphes du treschrestien, trespuissant et invictissime Roy de France, Francois premier de ce nom , Poitiers, J. et E. de Marnef, 1550.

literature

  • Julien Trevedy, Le travesseur (Jean Bouchet), poète et historien (1476–1555) , Rennes, 1901.
  • Auguste Hamon, Un grand rhetoriqueur poitevin: Jean Bouchet (1476–1557?) , Paris, H. Oudin, 1901; Geneva, Slatkine, 1970 (see the very critical review by Ernest Langlois, in: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes 63, 1902, pp. 134-137).
  • Paul Zumthor, Le Masque et la lumière. La poétique des grands rhétoriqueurs , Paris, Seuil, 1978.
  • Michael Screech, Rabelais , London, Duckworth, 1979.
  • Jennifer Britnell, Jean Bouchet , Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press for the University of Durham, 1986.
  • Adrian Armstrong, Technique and technology. Script, print and poetics in France, 1470–1550 , Oxford, Clarendon, 2000 (on Jean Molinet , Lemaire de Belges and Bouchet)
  • Claude La Charité, Les Epistres morales et familieres (1545) de Jean Bouchet. De la hiérarchie médiévale au dialogue humaniste, in: Études françaises 38, 3, 2002, pp. 25–42.
  • Jean Bouchet, traverseur des voies périlleuses (1476–1557). Actes du colloque de Poitiers (30–31 août 2001) , ed. by Jennifer Britnell and Nathalie Dauvois, Paris, Champion (Colloques, congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne 34), 2003 (on this the review by E. Berriot-Salvadore in: Bulletin de l'Association d'étude sur l'humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance 59, 2004, pp. 100-102).

Manual literature

  • Anthology poétique française. XVIe siècle , ed. by Maurice Allem , 2 vols., Paris, Garnier-Flammarion, 1965 (1, pp. 66-69).
  • Marie Madeleine Fontaine, "Bouchet, Jean", in: Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française , ed. by Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, Paris, Larousse, 2001, p. 237.

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personal data
SURNAME Bouchet, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1476
PLACE OF BIRTH Poitiers
DATE OF DEATH 1557
Place of death Poitiers