Pierre Joulet

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Pierre Joulet Sieur de Chatillon (* around 1545, † around 1621) was a French baroque author.

Little is known about Pierre Joulet. He studied in Italy, later worked as a controller of the royal lands in Mantes . He was married twice, first to Jeanne Jacquet, then to Marguerite de Refuge. Joulet's courtly historical novel Les Amours d'Armide , published in 1596, is based on a story from Tasso's crusade epic Gerusalemme liberata . It was translated into German in 1633 by Isaak Habrecht ( The Love of the Beautiful Armides ) and in 1715 by an anonymous translator ( The Events of the Armides ) .

Works

  • Les Amours d'Armide , Paris, 1596

Translations

  • Isaak Habrecht: The love of the beautiful Armids , Strasbourg , 1633
  • anonymous: The events of the Armide , Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1715

literature

  • Chandler B. Beall: La Fortune du Becher en France , Oregon, 1942
  • Joyce G. Simpson: Le Becher et la littérature et l'art baroques en France , Paris, 1962
personal data
SURNAME Joulet, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joulet, Pierre Sieur de Chatillon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French baroque author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1545
DATE OF DEATH around 1621