Laurent Drelincourt

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Laurent Drelincourt (born January 14, 1625 in Paris , † June 2, 1680 in Niort ) was a French Reformed pastor and writer.

life and work

Laurent Drelincourt was the son of the pastor and author Charles Drelincourt (1595–1669). He studied Reformed theology at the Protestant Academy in Saumur and was a pastor in La Rochelle from 1651 to 1660 , and later in Niort . In Paris he was sponsored by Valentin Conrart . Drelincourt was the last of the great Protestant poets in France before the Edict of Fontainebleau .

Excerpt from the sonnet "Sur les vents"

Vents, qui, dans un cours inconstant,
naissez et mourez, chaque instant -
mes jours ne sont qu'un vent qui passe;
mon cœur fait naufrage en la mort:
mais Dieu, du souffle de sa Grâce,
pousse mon âme dans le port.

Winds that
arise and die, incessantly , at any moment -
my days are but a wind that blows away;
my heart is shipwrecked in death:
but God, with the breath of his grace,
brings my soul to port.

Works

  • Sonnets chrétiens sur divers sujets , Niort, Bureau, 1677 (also Dutch, 1727, and German, Neuwied, Haupt, 1742; Strasbourg, Heitz, 1768).
    • Sonnets chrétiens sur diverse subjects. Divisés en quatre livres , Paris, Ed. du Chêne, 1948 (preface by Albert-Marie Schmidt ).
    • Sonnets chrétiens sur divers sujets , ed. by Julien Goeury, Paris, Champion, 2004.
  • (posthumously) Les psaumes pénitentiaux en vers héroïques , Geneva, 1693–1694.
  • Les étoiles de l'Église et les chandeliers mystiques; suivi de Le salutaire lever du soleil de justice , ed. by Julien Goeury, Grenoble, Millon, 2002.

literature

  • Alain Génetiot: Drelincourt, Laurent . In: Laffont-Bompiani. Le nouveau dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, Paris 1994, p. 931 (Bouquins series).

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personal data
SURNAME Drelincourt, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Reformed pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1680
Place of death Niort