Philippe Goibaud-Dubois

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Philippe Goibaud-Dubois (also: Du Bois-Goibaud ) (born June 3, 1626 in Poitiers , † July 1, 1694 in Paris ) was a French translator and member of the Académie française .

life and work

In the service of the Guise

Goibaud went from his Poitevini homeland to Paris as a violinist and dance teacher and was taught by Marie de Lorraine (or Marie de Guise , 1615–1688) to raise her nephew Louis Joseph de Lorraine, duc de Guise (1650–1688 ), who had been fatherless since the age of four . 1671), son of Louis de Lorraine, duc de Joyeuse (1622–1654), employed. The uncle of his wards, Henri II. De Lorraine, duc de Guise (1614–1664) left memoirs that Goibaud edited at the behest of the editor, Stable Master Saint-Yon, and which appeared in 1668.

The Pascaliner

Goibaud came over his compatriot and friend Duke Arthur Gouffier de Roannez (1627-1696) with Port-Royal in contact and by extension, just like the other friend and compatriot Nicolas Filleau de La Chaise (1631-1688), with Pascal , whose Area he belonged to in the last years of his life. After Pascal's death in 1662 Goibaud, like La Chaise, was one of the so-called Pascalins ( pascalins ) who tried to surrender the pensées that had been left behind and who were successful in 1670.

Member of the Académie française and death

Goibaud, who at the age of thirty had studied Latin with the Solitaires of Port-Royal, turned to translation after the death of the Duke of Guise in 1671 (at the age of 21) and translated extensive texts from Latin by Cicero and Augustine , which appeared from 1676. In November 1693 he was admitted to the Académie française (seat no.19 ) and in his inaugural address addressed his principle of classical anti-rhetoric, which went back to Pascal's maxim 671: La vraie éloquence se moque de l'éloquence (The true rhetoric needs no rhetoric). He continued this idea with reference to Augustine in 1694 in the foreword to his Augustine translation, which provoked the contradiction of Antoine Arnauld , who held other Augustine passages against him. Both opponents died in the same year, Goibaud on July 1st, Arnauld on August 8th. The texts were first critically edited in 1992 by Thomas M. Carr Jr (* 1944), since the éloquence of the 17th century had become the subject of research since 1980 by Marc Fumaroli .

Works

Translations

  • Les deux livres de S. Augustin, De la Predestination des saints, et Du Don de la perseverance . Paris 1676.
  • Les Livres de S. Augustin, de la maniere d'enseigner les principes de la religion chrestienne à ceux qui n'en sont pas encore instruits. De la vertu de continence & de temperance, de la patience, et contre le mensonge . Paris 1678.
  • Les Lettres de saint Augustin traduites en françois sur l'édition nouvelle des PP. bénédictins de la Congrégation de S. Maur. Paris 1684.
  • Les confessions de S. Augustin . Paris 1686. (numerous editions up to 1776 and 1838)
  • De l'Imitation de Jesus-Christ . Paris 1687.
  • Les deux livres de S. Augustin De la véritable religion et Des moeurs de l'Église catholique . Paris 1690.
  • Les Offices de Cicéron . Paris 1691.
  • Les livres de Ciceron, de la vieillesse et de l'amitié , avec les Paradoxes du même autheur. Paris 1691.
  • (with Jean-René Allaneau de La Bonnodière) Les Sermons de S. Augustin sur le Nouveau Testament . Paris 1694.

Other works

  • (Ed.) Mémoires de feu M. le duc (Henri) de Guise . Martin, Paris 1668.
  • Conformité de la conduite de l'Eglise de France pour ramener les protestans: avec celle de l'Eglise d'Afrique pour ramener les Donatistes à l'Eglise catholique . Paris 1685.
  • Avertissement en tête de sa traduction des sermons de Saint Augustin (1694). In: Antoine Arnauld: Réflexions sur l'éloquence des prédicateurs (1695). Ed. Thomas M. Carr, Jr. Droz, Geneva 1992.
    • Review of this work by Frédéric Deloffre in: Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 71, 1993, pp. 770–771. [1]

literature

  • Béatrice Guion: Existe-t-il un malebranchisme littéraire? In: Dix-septième siècle 255, 2012/2, pp. 257-271. [2]

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personal data
SURNAME Goibaud-Dubois, Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Du Bois-Goibaud, Philippe; Goibaut-Dubois, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French translator and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1626
PLACE OF BIRTH Poitiers
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1694
Place of death Paris