Michel Le Clerc

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Michel Le Clerc (* 1622 in Albi ; † December 8, 1691 in Paris ) was a French playwright, translator and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Michel Le Clerc attended the Jesuit College, which opened in Albi in 1623, and got to know the Jesuit theater there. He studied law. In 1645 he went to Paris with his friend Claude Boyer and became a lawyer at the Parlement . With the help of Jean Chapelain , he was admitted to the Académie française in 1662 (seat no. 40).

Le Clerc came out with some stage works as well as occasional poetry. The Iphigénie , written with Jacques de Coras (1625–1677), could not assert itself against the simultaneous performance of Iphigénie by Jean Racine in 1674/1675 . The verse translation of Torquato Tasso's verse epic La Gerusalemme liberata is considered to be Le Clerc's most important achievement .

Works

Stage works

  • La Virginie romaine. Tragedy . Paris 1645, 1649. [1]
  • (with Jacques de Coras): Iphigénie. Tragedy . Paris 1676. [2]
  • Orontée. Tragédie en musique, ornée d'entrées de ballet . Paris 1688. [3]

Seal (selection)

  • Paraphrase you XX. pseaume de David. Domine in virtute tua laetabitur Rex. Accomodé a la personne et aux conquestes du roy . Paris 1672.
  • Le Temple de l'immortalité. Ode to Mgr le Dauphin . Paris 1673.

translation

  • Torquato Tasso: La Hiérusalem délivrée, poëme héroïque ... traduit en vers français . Paris 1667.

literature

  • Henry Carrington Lancaster : A history of French dramatic literature in the seventeenth century. The period of Corneille 1635-1651 . Baltimore 1932 / New York 1966, pp. 605-606.
  • Maurice Rat (Ed.) Racine: Théâtre complet . Garnier, Paris 1960, p. 473.

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personal data
SURNAME Le Clerc, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French playwright, translator and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH 1622
PLACE OF BIRTH Albi
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1691
Place of death Paris