Nicolas Rapin

Nicolas Rapin (* 1535 in Fontenay-le-Comte ; † February 16, 1608 in Poitiers ) was a French writer.

life and work

Rapin fulfilled the kings Karl IX in crisis-ridden France . , Heinrich III. and Henry IV had high military, police and administrative duties and was a respected poet at court. He belonged to the so-called Parti des politiques (Party of Politicals), a group that tried to be neutral towards Protestants and Catholics during the Huguenot Wars . Among his poems are known: Vers mesurés rimés , Psaumes de La pénitence and Plaisirs d'un gentilhomme champêtre .

Rapin was together with Pierre Pithou , Jean Passerat , Florent Chrestien , Gilles Durant de la Bergerie (1554-1614) and Jacques Gillot (1550-1619) author of the Satyre Ménippée (1593), a (very successful) satirical pamphlet against the never-ending willing civil war and against the Holy League (1576) , as well as for the installation of a strong, third estate-weighted king, namely Henry IV.

Jean Brunel (* 1933) dedicated a Thèse (1988) supervised by Robert Aulotte to Rapin , which appeared in print in 2002. He had previously published the complete works critically (1982–1984).

Works

• Oeuvres , ed. by Jean Brunel and Emile Brethé, 3 volumes. Droz, Geneva 1982–1984 (with biography and list of publications).
  • I. Vers publiés du vivant de l'auteur.
  • II. Vers publiés après 1608 et inédits.
  • III. Les Oeuvres latines et françaises (1610). Correspondance. Testament.
• (with others) Satyre Menippee de la Vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne et de la tenue des Estats de Paris , critical ed. by Martial Martin. H. Champion, Paris 2007.

literature

• Jean Brunel: Un poitevin poète, humaniste et soldat à l'époque des guerres de religion. Nicolas Rapin (1539-1608). La carrière, les milieux, l'œuvre . 2 volumes. Champion, Paris 2002 (Diss. Sorbonne 1988).

Manual literature

• Maurice Allem (Ed.): Anthologie poétique française. XVIe siècle . 2 volumes. Garnier-Flammarion, Paris 1965, Volume 2, pp. 175-184.
• Rapin, Nicolas . In: Laffont-Bompiani. Le nouveau dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Paris 1994, pp. 2659-2660 (Bouquins series).
• Frank Lestringan: Rapin, Nicolas . Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty, Alain Rey: Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française . Larousse, Paris 2001, p. 1498.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nicolas Rapin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• larousse.fr (encyclopedia article, French)
• sudoc.abes.fr (summary of Jean Brunel's dissertation, French)
• Jean Brunel: Nicolas Rapin, étude biographique et littéraire (la carrière, les milieux, l'œuvre) . In: Bulletin de l'Association d'étude sur l'humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance , 32, 1991, pp. 70-79; accessed January 13, 2016.