Pierre de Boissat

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Pierre de Boissat (* 1603 in Vienne ; † March 28, 1662 ibid) was a French translator and member of the Académie française . He is not to be confused with Pierre de Boissat (1556–1613).

life and work

The soldier

Pierre de Boissat was the son of the eponymous Graecist and historian Pierre de Boissat (1556–1613). He attended the Jesuit college in Vienne. In 1621 he broke off his law studies to fight under François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières in the Dauphiné . Then he went to Malta to fight the Islamic pirates, but had to return without having achieved anything. He went to Paris and caused a stir there with his personality. In 1625 he fought, again under Lesdiguières, against Genoa . He fell ill, recovered in Vienne and went back to Paris in 1627. There he was in the service of Gaston de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans until 1637 . With this he fought on the island of Ré and in front of La Rochelle and followed him to Lorraine. There he became one of the Duke's 26 paid gentilhommes ordinaires . From there he visited Belgium and Holland. He was sent to Nancy on a secret mission. After further fighting, he returned to Paris in 1634 with the Duke of Orléans.

The man of letters

In Paris he lived at the splendid court of the Duke of Orléans in the company of Tristan L'Hermite , Vincent Voiture , Vaugelas , Théophile de Viau , Nicolas Faret , Saint-Amant and others. In 1634 he belonged to the first season of the Académie française (seat no. 31). In 1637 he had a dispute with the governor of the Dauphiné , François de Bonne de Créqui, comte de Sault (1596–1676) at Carnival in Grenoble , which induced him to retire in 1638 to his native Vienne. He married there in 1649. In 1656 the Queen Christine of Sweden visited him . Gaspard de Lascaris († 1684), papal vice-legate in Avignon , gave him the title of Count Palatine ( comte palatin ) in 1661 because of his intensive missionary activities in his homeland. Nicolas Chorier was one of his friends . He died in 1662 at the age of 58.

The author

Together with his friend Jean Baudoin, he arranged for the translation of the fables of Aesop , which La Fontaine had for his fables. His extensive Latin writings (history and poetry) were either never printed or were lost.

Works

  • (Translator) Les Fables d'Esope, Phrygia. Illustrées de discours moraux, philosophiques et politiques. Avec des reflexions morales par Jean Baudoin. Paris 1633. Brussels 1669. Müller, Munich 1920. Bonnot, Paris 1988.

literature

  • Camille Latreille (1870–1927): Pierre de Boissat (1603–1662) et le mouvement littéraire en Dauphiné . Allier frères, Grenoble 1900. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Boissat, Pierre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boissat, Pierre III. de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienne (Isere)
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1662
Place of death Vienne (Isere)