Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme

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Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (* around 1540 in Périgord , † July 15, 1614 in Brantôme ) was a French writer during the Renaissance . In his memoirs (including "The Life of the Gallant Ladies", published in 1665), he conveyed a vivid picture of the French aristocratic society of his time.

Pierre de Bourdeille, called Brantôme

Life

As the son of a noble family, he became a courtier and then a soldier and traveled to Italy , Scotland , Spain and Portugal . He later fought in the French Wars of Religion , but had an accident in 1584 when he fell from his horse so badly that he had to leave the service and began to write. He had a special friendship with Filippo Strozzi . His works, "Vies des hommes illustres et des grands capitains" and "Vies des dames galantes et des dames illustres" , did not appear until 1665. They vividly depict court life at the time of Brantôme and contain a myriad of historically evaluable gossip stories.

literature

  • A. Grimaldi: Brantôme et le sens de l'histoire. 1971
  • François Rouget: Présence de Mellin de Saint-Gelais dans "L'album poétique" de Brantôme, in magazine for French language and literature, 125, 3 (July) Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2016 ISSN  0044-2747 (print) p. 261– 274

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SURNAME Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourdeille, Pierre de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soldier and author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Périgord
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1614
Place of death Brantôme