Pierre de Brach
Pierre de Brach sgr de la Mothe-Montussan (born September 22, 1547 in Bordeaux , † 1605 ibid) was a French lawyer, poet and holder of administrative functions in his hometown of Bordeaux.
Live and act
His father was Bernard Brach, a prosecutor in the parlement of Bordeaux, procureur au parlement de Bordeaux . He was born in the parish of the Église Saint-Pierre in Bordeaux. At the age of ten he entered the Collège de Guyenne there. He later studied law in Toulouse .
Around 1567 he was awarded a prize by the Académie des Jeux floraux . He finished his studies and he returned to Bordeaux where he worked as a lawyer. Among his friends were Guillaume du Bartas (1544–1590), Pierre de Ronsard , Florimond de Raemond , Justus Lipsius and above all Michel de Montaigne .
On April 7, 1571 he married Anne de Perrot († 1587), the couple had five children. In 1577 he was given the office of advisor to the king, conseiller du roi, and that of contrôleur en la chancellerie de Bordeaux mediated by the favor of Margaret of Navarre . Some of his poems were set to music by the composer Antoine de Bertrand (1540–1580) in 1578. In 1595 he was appointed jurat , a member of the municipal body, jurat de Bordeaux for two years . He was involved in the posthumous publication of the essays of his friend Michel de Montaigne.
Works (selection)
- Les Poèmes de Pierre de Brach. Simon Millages, Bordeaux 1576 .
- Texts en ligne I mitations de Pierre de Brach: Aminte, fable bocagere prize de l'italien, plus l'Olympe, imitation de l'Arioste (1584). .
- Quatre chants de la Hierusalem de Torquato Tasso. 1596.
- Œuvres poétiques de Pierre de Brach, sieur de La Motte Montussan. Edited by Reinhold Dezeimeris, 2 vol., A. Aubry, Paris 1861–1862.
- Les Amours d'Aymée. Edited by Jasmine Dawkins, Droz, Genève, 1971.
- Lettre sur la mort de Montaigne. A selection of poems with a foreword by Iñigo de Satrústegui, L'Horizon chimérique, Bordeaux 1988.
literature
- Reinhold Dezeimeris: Notice on Pierre de Brach, poète bordelais du XVIe siècle. A. Aubry, Paris 1858 .
- Les Dossiers d'Aquitaine, Histoire des maires de Bordeaux. 2008, ISBN 2-84622-171-5 .
- Jasmine Dawkins: Pierre de Brach (1547–? 1605): A Poet Honored in His Own Century. Nottingham French Studies, May 1968, Vol. 7, No. 1: pp. 2-16 ( doi: 10.3366 / nfs.1968.002 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre de Brach in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Other information on the series 1549
- ↑ Family genealogy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brach, Pierre de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brach de la Motte-Montussan, Pierre de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French lawyer, poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1547 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bordeaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1605 |
| Place of death | Bordeaux |