Paul Tallement the Younger

Paul Talle member called Paul Tallemant the Younger, ( born June 18, 1642 Paris, † July 30, 1712 ) was a French cleric and writer.

Talle Ment came from a Huguenot family; the brothers François and Gedeon Tallemant were his cousins.

As a writer Talle member was known for his work " Voyage de l'isle d' amour " which he inspired by Jonathan Swift's " Gulliver's Travels ", 1663/64 could publish with great success. In addition favored Talle Ment literary rather small forms, such as divertissement, panegyric or eulogies.

1666 appointed to the Académie française Talle member to succeed the late writer Jean Ogier de Gombauld ( armchair 5). He himself followed in 1712 by the writer Antoine Danchet on this place.

The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres took 1673 Talle Ment on as a member. This event commented their Secrétaire perpétuel, Claude Gros de Boze, a quip after having " ... plus recommandable par ses vertus que par ses talents. "

Paul Tallemant the Younger died six weeks after his 70th birthday on July 30, 1712 in Paris and found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

• Voyage de l'isle d' amour. Paris 1663 (online)
• Le second voyage de l'isle d' amour. Paris 1664th
• Recueil de quelques pièces et nouvelles Gallant, tant en prose qu'en vers. Cologne 1663rd
• Panégyriques harangues et à la louange du roi. Paris 1677th
• Remarque and Decisions de l' Académie française. Slatkine Edition, Geneva, 1972 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1698 (online).