Louis Charles d'Albert

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Louis Charles d'Albert Duc de Luynes, Pair de France.

Louis-Charles d'Albert de Luynes (born December 25, 1620 in the Palais du Louvre ; † October 10, 1690 , Paris ), the second Duc de Luynes and Peer of France , was a French translator and moralist . He was the first to translate the works of René Descartes from Latin into French .

biography

As the son of Charles d'Albert , the first Duc de Luynes , a favorite of Louis XIII. , and by Marie de Rohan de Luynes was accepted into parliament as a peer at the age of 19 on November 24, 1639 . And already on August 2, 1640 he distinguished himself as "Mestre de camp" when he fought against the Spaniards as the leader of a regiment outside Arras . On January 6, 1643 he was appointed Grand Falconer ( Grand Fauconnier de France ) and on December 31, 1661 he was made Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit . He lived for a long time with the Solitaires de Port-Royal (Hermits of Port-Royal), where he had the Château de Vaumurier ( Vaumurier ) built in the immediate vicinity of the Port-Royal des Champs Abbey . There he received Blaise Pascal and the young Jean Racine, among others, and took part in a number of intellectual works by the “Messieurs de Port-Royal” such as the translation of the New Testament .

He also translated Descartes' Méditations métaphysiques into French (1647) and wrote many works on morality and piety. After his death he was buried in the Église de l'Hôpital in Luynes , which he had founded.

family

He was married three times:

First marriage: 23 September 1641, Louise Marie Seguier, Marquise d'O (1624–13 September 1651). He had six children with her:

  • Hercule Louis (1644-1645)
  • Marie Louise (1645-1728)
  • Charles-Honoré (1646-1712)
  • Henriette Thérèse (1647–1699)
  • Thérèse (1651)
  • Félix Paul (1651)

Second marriage: September 4, 1661, Anne de Rohan (1640–1684). He had eight children with her:

  • Françoise Paule Charlotte (1662-1670)
  • Marie Anne (1663–1679) ∞ Charles III. de Rohan-Guéméné
  • Marie Charlotte Victoire (1667–1701) ∞ Alexandre Albert François Bathélémy 4th Duc and 2nd Prince de Bournonville
  • Catherine Angélique (1668–1746) ∞ Charles Antoine II Gouffier, Marquis de Heilly
  • Jeanne-Baptiste (1670–1736) Comtesse de Verrue, mistress of Viktor Amadeus II of Sardinia-Piedmont
  • Louis-Joseph, Prince de Grimberghen (1672–1758)
  • Charles-Hercule, Duke of Chevreuse (1674–1734)
  • Jeanne Thérèse (1675–1756)

Third marriage: July 23, 1685, Marguerite d ' Aligre (1641– September 26, 1722).

Works (selection)

  • Le grand chemin de la vraye Eglise, historiquement démontré par l'origine & la suite des traditions divines, apostoliques & ecclésiastiques ... (The great way of the true Church , presented historically from the origin and from the divine traditions, apostolic and ecclesiastical. ..)
  • Les devoirs des seigneurs dans leurs terres. Suivant les ordonnances de France. Divisez en trois parties. (The duties of the gentlemen in their lands. According to the regulations of France. In three sections)
  • Les quarante homélies ou sermons de saint Grégoire le Grand, pape ... sur les évangiles de l'année. (40 sermons of Gregory the Great ... on the Gospels of the year)
  • Lettre d'un ancien Pere de l'Eglise, a une dame illustrious nommée Celancie. Qui contient de tres-excellentes instructions pour les personnes engagées dans le monde. (Letters from an old church father to a distinguished lady by the name of Celancie . These contain very good instructions for the people employed in the world.)
  • Meditationes de prima philosophia . ( to Descartes )
  • Morales sur job .
  • Tradition de l'Eglise touchant l ' Eucharistie , recueillie des saints Pères et autres auteurs ecclésiastiques, divisée en cinquante-deux offices. (Church traditions concerning Holy Communion, compiled from the writings of the Fathers and other ecclesiastical authors, divided into 52 offices .)

translation

  • Les méditations métaphysiques de René Descartes: touchant la première philosophie. - 2. éd., Rev. & corr. par le trad. et augm. de la version d'une lettre de Mr. Des-Cartes au RP Dinet & de celle des septiesmes objections & de leurs responses. Paris 1661. (The Meditations Metaphysiques of Descartes: what the Prima Philosophia touches - with the seven problems and their answers.)
  • Divers ouvrages de piété, tirés de S. Cyprien, S. Basile ... traduits nouvellement en français par le sieur de Laval. 2de édition (various works of piety, by Cyprian of Carthage , Basil the Great , ...)

Web links

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See also

literature

  • Gustave Vapereau: Dictionnaire universel des littératures. Paris, Hachette 1876: 1285-6.
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Louis Charles d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luynes, Louis-Charles d'Albert de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and moralist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH Palais du Louvre , France
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1690
Place of death Paris