René Rapin

René Rapin (* 1621 in Tours, † October 27th 1687 in Paris) was a French Jesuit and scholar.

Rapin occurred in 1639 in the Society of Jesus. He taught at Jesuit schools classical literature and rhetoric, wrote poetic and literary theory works and kept up a correspondence with the French general and memoirist Roger de Bussy- Rabutin.

In the Jesuit Order, he held the office of scriptor librorum. In this capacity, he wrote religious and religious-historical treatises. Since 1656, he dealt with Jansenism. To investigate this religious current, he traveled to Flanders to the founder to research about Cornelius Jansen. 1668 he also traveled for research to Rome, where he. Pope Clement XI Inspection of files received. Result of his studies was a two -volume work entitled " Histoire du Jansénisme " and " Mémoires sur l' eglise et la société, la cour, la Ville et le Jansénisme " which he indeed was able to complete just before his death, but the only was printed in 1861 and 1865. The second volume will receive a detailed description of the literary salons of the time and the aristocratic society at the court of the king and to their country seats.

But his most successful work was that of a long prose treatise accompanied garden poem that has been translated into several languages ​​and the theory of the French Baroque garden fixed first comprehensive writing.

Rapin often held on to the country estate of Guillaume de Lamoigon, President of the Parliament in Paris and longtime friend and supporter of the Jesuits. Here he suffered a stroke in 1687 also, the consequences of which he shortly afterwards, brought to Paris, passed away.

Writings

  • Eclogues Sacrae (1659 )
  • Hortorum libri IV ( 1665)
  • Observations sur les poèmes d' Homère et de Virgile ( 1669)
  • Réflexions sur l' usage de l' Eloquence de ce temps ( 1672)
  • Réflexions sur la poétique d' Aristote et sur ​​les anciens et modernes ouvrages of POETES ( 1674)
  • The Whole Critical Works Of Monsieur Rapin ( 1706)
  • You Oeuvres P. Rapin: Qui Contiennent Les Reflextions Sur L' Eloquence, La Poetique, L' History Et La Philosophie ( 1725)

Correspondence

  • Bussy- Rabutin: Correspondance avec le père René Rapin. Éd. critique avec introduction et notes par Rouben C.. Paris: A.-G. Nizet 1983. ISBN 978-2-7078-1027-4
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