Pierre Le Moyne

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Pierre Le Moyne (born March 5, 1602 in Chaumont , † August 22, 1671 in Paris ) was a French Jesuit , preacher and writer.

life and work

Title page of the dramatic poem Saint Louis ou la Sainte Couronne Reconquise (1653)

Le Moyne joined the Jesuits in 1619 and taught in Reims and Dijon. Then he was successful in Paris as a preacher and author. Famous in his time was the heroic epic (first published in 1653, greatly expanded in 1658) of around 20,000 verses about the acquisition of Christ's crown of thorns by St. King Louis IX. of France with the title Saint Louys ou la Sainte couronne reconquise (Saint Louis or the reconquest of the holy crown of thorns), which at the same time reminded of the creation of the Sainte-Chapelle and the Europe-wide veneration of the relic . Blaise Pascal turned in his polemical text Lettres provinciales from a Jansenist point of view against Le Moyne's gentle morality of "piety without effort".

Works

  • La Gallerie des femmes fortes , Paris, A. de Sommaville, 1647 (numerous editions, also in Spanish and Italian).
  • Devises héroïques et morales , Paris, A. Corbé, 1649 (Emblemata).
  • Les Poésies , Paris, A. Courbé, 1650.
  • Le grand miroir des financiers , tiré du cabinet des curiositez du deffunct Cardinal de Richelieu, où l'on void, I. L'homme d'estat en matieres d'interests, II. L'ordre de manier les finances, III. Les moyens de faire profiter l'argent du roy, l'aduancement de la fortune des intendants, & son declin, IV. Le discernement des maltotiers d'auec les officiers legitime de l'espargne, V. Discours necessaire à tous gens d ' affaires & de finances, Paris 1652; Farmington Hills, Mich., Thomson Gale, 2005.
  • La Dévotion aisée [Piety without Effort], Paris, A. de Sommaville, 1652 (numerous editions).
  • Saint Louys, ou Le héros chrestien. Poëme héroïque , Paris, C. du Mesnil, 1653, 1656 (249 pages).
    • Saint Louys, ou la Sainte Couronne Reconquise. Poëme héroïque , Paris, A. Courbé, 1658 (581 pages, several editions)
  • De l'art de rain. Au roy , Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, & Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1665.
  • De l'Histoire , Paris, Louis Billaine, 1670.
    • Traités sur l'histoire, 1638-1677. La Mothe Le Vayer, Le Moyne, Saint-Réal, Rapin , ed. by Gérard Ferreyrolles, Paris, Champion, 2013.

Modern editions

  • Les grandes figures de l'Angleterre catholique , Abbeville, C. Paillart, 1897.
  • Les Hymnes de la sagesse divine et de l'amour divin. Le Discours de la poésie , ed. by Anne Mantero, Paris, Le Miroir volant, 1986.
  • Entretiens et lettres poétiques , critical ed. by Richard G. Maber, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2012.

literature

  • Henri Chérot, Étude sur la vie et les œuvres du P. Le Moyne 1602-1671 , Paris, A. Picard, 1887 (Diss. Besançon); Geneva, Slatkine, 1971.
  • Carlos Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouvelle édition , vol. 5, Brussels / Paris 1894, col. 1356–1371 (sv Moyne).
  • Asbjørn Aarnes (1923-2013), Pierre le Moyne. En fransk barokkdikter , Oslo, Forlagt av Johan Grundt Tanum, 1965.
  • William Calin, Crown, cross and "fleur-de-lis". An essay on Pierre Le Moyne's baroque epic "Saint Louis" , Saratoga, Calif., Anma libri, 1977 (Stanford French and Italian studies 6).
  • Richard G. Maber, The Poetry of Pierre Le Moyne, 1602-1671 , Frankfurt am Main, Lang, 1982 (Diss. Oxford).
  • Yvan Loskoutoff, L'armorial de Calliope. L'oeuvre du Père Le Moyne SJ (1602-1671). Littérature, héraldique, spiritualité , Tübingen, Narr, 2000.
  • Pierre Le Moyne (1602-1671) , ed. by Anne-Elisabeth Spica, Tübingen, Narr, 2010 (Oeuvres et critiques 35.2).

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personal data
SURNAME Le Moyne, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Jesuit, preacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Chaumont
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1671
Place of death Paris