Jean de la Chapelle

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Jean de La Chapelle (born October 24, 1651 in Bourges , † May 29, 1723 in Paris ) was a French diplomat, political writer, playwright, novelist and member of the Académie française . He is not to be confused with Claude-Emmanuel Lhuillier , called Chapelle, nor with the chronicler Jean de La Chapelle / Ioannis de Capella (15th century).

life and work

Jean de La Chapelle was the son of a dean of the Faculty of Law in Bourges . He grew up as a highly educated Greek and Latinist, went into finance and was a tax collector for La Rochelle . From around 1680 he was an employee (secretary) of the Princes of Conti , Louis Armand I. de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1661–1685) and his brother François Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1664–1709, the Great Conti), later his son Louis Armand II. de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1695–1727). Through the young Contis, he also came into the circle of the theater enthusiast Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé (1621–1686, the Great Condé) and wrote successful tragedies in which the famous actor Michel Baron played leading roles. After taking part in the fight against the Turks with the Conti brothers in Hungary , he was elected to the Académie française (seat no. 31) with their support in 1688.

His friendship with Roger Brûlart de Sillery, Marquis of Puyzieulx (1640–1719), who was ambassador to Switzerland from 1697–1708, inspired him to publish 48 fictitious letters from Paris in which he outlined the political situation in Europe Illuminated the Swiss perspective, all the more so as the Great Conti in 1707 laid claim to Neuchâtel . 1706–1707 La Chapelle was vice ambassador in Solothurn in place of the sick Puyzieulx, but the appointment as ambassador was thwarted by an intrigue. La Chapelle died in 1723 at the age of 71.

Works

Stage works

  • Les Carosses d'Orléans . Comedie. Paris 1681, 1788, 1810, 1826.
  • Zaïde . Tragedy. Paris 1681.
    • (Dutch) Amsterdam 1718.
  • Cléopâtre . Tragedy. Paris 1682, 1683, 1699.
    • (Dutch) Amsterdam 1685, 1739.
  • Telephonte . Tragedy. Paris 1683.
    • (Dutch) Amsterdam 1707.
  • Les oeuvres de monsieur de La Chapelle . Zaïde, Cléopâtre, Téléphonte. Paris 1683.
  • Oeuvres du sieur de La Chapelle . 2 vols. Paris 1700.
  • L'Amour et l'hymen . Divertissement donné à l'hôtel de Conty, aprés le mariage de Leurs Altesses serenissimes (mariage de Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon, fille d'Henri-Jules de Bourbon, prince de Condé, avec Franc̜ois-Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti, le 29 June 1688). 1688.
  • Isac . Tragedy, mise en musique. Paris 1717.

Novels

  • Les Amours de Catulle . Paris 1680–1681, 1713, 1716, 1725, 1742. ("Historical Assumptions", prose, interspersed with poems)
  • Marie d'Anjou, pure de Mayorque . Paris 1682, London 1747.
  • Les Amours de Tibulle . Paris 1712-1713, 1716, 1719, 1732, 1742.

Political Analysis

  • Lettres d'un Suisse à un François où l'on voit les véritables interests des Princes et des Nations de l'Europe qui sont en guerre. 8 vols. Basel 1702–1709. (48 letters)
    • (German) Letter from a Swiss who is staying in France to a French who has sat down in Switzerland. 1704.
    • (Italian) Diciottesima lettera scritta da uno Svizzero a un Franzese. Basel and Naples 1704.
  • Lettres, mémoires, et actes, concernant la guerre présente . Basel 1703.
  • (anonymous) Derniers conseils ou Testament politique d'un ministre de l'empereur Léopold I. Roterdam (= Lyon) 1706.
  • Description of the pompe funebre faite dans l'église de Saint-André des Arcs, à la mémoire de ... François-Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conty , avec des mémoires historiques sur toute la vie de ce prince. Paris 1709.
  • Réflexions politiques et historiques sur l'affaire des princes . The Hague 1717.

literature

  • Armand Boutillier du Retail (1882-1943): La Chapelle. In: Revue des études hongroises et finno-ougriennes 7–11, 1929, pp. 79–88.
  • François Charpentier: Speech to welcome Jean de La Chapelle in the Académie française 1688 , French. [1]
  • Nicholas Dion: L'histoire galante d'un poète galant. Les Amours de Tibulle de Jean de La Chapelle. In: Littératures classiques 77, 2012, pp. 69–82. [2]
  • Joseph Klaits: Printed Propaganda under Louis XIV. Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion . Princeton 1976, 2015, pp. 116-136. (Review by Roger Chartier in: Annales 33–34, 1978, pp. 759–762, French [3] )
  • René Roux: Les missions politiques de Jean de La Chapelle de l'Académie française (1655-1723). In: Revue d'histoire diplomatique 40, 1926, pp. 241-281.
  • Hanns Zipper (* 1888): Jean de La Chapelle . Diss. Bonn 1920.

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personal data
SURNAME La Chapelle, Jean de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat, political writer, playwright, novelist and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1651
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourges
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1723
Place of death Paris