Pierre Joulet
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
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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 |