Jean de Montigny

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Jean de Montigny (* 1633 in Rennes , † September 28, 1671 in Vitré ) was a French Roman Catholic bishop, poet and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Montigny was the son of a lawyer at the Parlement in Rennes. The indication of the year of his birth fluctuates between 1633 and 1637. When in 1656 a polemic arose over the work La Pucelle by Jean Chapelain , he defended the author. 1659–1660 he accompanied the king on his great journey to Saint-Jean-de-Luz . He was ordained a priest in 1664 and gave the funeral oration for Anna of Austria in 1666 . He was the confessor of Queen Marie-Thérèse . In 1670 he was appointed to the Académie française (seat no. 23). In his inaugural address, he praised the Academy's language work and defined the academic as “honnête homme qui parle bien” (gentleman who speaks good French). Appointed Bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon in August 1671 , he died of a stroke in September after having hovered between life and death several times.

Works

  • Lettre à Éraste pour response à son libelle against la Pucelle . Paris 1656.
  • Le Palais des plaisirs . In: Recueil de poesies . Ed. Madame de Lauvergne. Paris 1680, pp. 143-150.

literature

  • Bernard J. Bourque (Ed.): Jean Chapelain et la querelle de "La Pucelle". Textes choisis . Fool Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2019.
  • René Kerviler: Jean de Montigny (1636–1671) . In: Revue de Bretagne 20, 9, 1876, pp. 425-444 and 20, 10, 1876, pp. 41-67.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ to catholic-hierarchy.org
personal data
SURNAME Montigny, Jean de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic bishop, poet and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1671
Place of death Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine)