François le Métel de Boisrobert

François Le Metel de Bois Robert ( born August 1, 1592 Caen, † March 30, 1662 in Paris) was a French clergyman, poet and playwright, who was one of the authors to Armand- Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu and 1634 to the belonged to the first members of the Académie française.

Life

Boisrobert was first clergyman and was introduced by Nicolas Faret in the circle of friends around the literati Valentin Conrart. This introduced him to Cardinal Richelieu known as the "Red Eminence " relevant advisors and ministers of King Louis XIII. had. Because of this relationship, he was appointed chaplain not only the king but also to the State Council.

From the circle to Conrart the idea of ​​founding the Académie française in 1634, at the Robert Bois came was heavily involved. He took first among the members of the Académie française sixth chair ( fauteuil 6). The first meetings of the Academy took place in his house and he himself contributed significantly to the work of the institution, so by the holding of the fourth speech under the title Pour la défense du Théâtre, in which the members of the defense of the theater discussed.

In addition to his main work Les Thuileries and L' Aveugle de Smyrna, he wrote prose letters, dramatic poems, tragedies eight and ten comedies in the style of Lope de Vega. Some of his lyrics were set to music by the composer Pierre Guedron. Middle of the 17th century, he also dealt with the lyric became fashionable small shape of the Bouts - Rimes, where one seals off the cuff according to predetermined end rhymes.

After he had temporarily lost the favor of Cardinal Richelieu and was exiled to many members for his return put an to the Academy, where he possessed to the death of Richelieu in 1642 again significant influence. This he lost but thereafter during the term of office of the First Minister Jules Mazarin, so that in 1657 it was even possible a letter addressed to him pamphlet appear. It was written by Antoine de Baudeau Somaize, the private secretary of Mary Mancini, a mistress of King Louis XIV and Cardinal Mazarin's niece.

After his death he was succeeded by the poet Jean Regnault de Segrais as a member of the Académie française.

Publications

Stage Works

• Pyrandre et Lisimène ou l' Heureuse tromperie, Tragikömödie, 1633
• Les amis Rivaux, 1639
• Les Deux Alcandres, 1640
• La Belle Palene, 1642
• Le Couronnement de Darie, 1642
• La Vraie Didon Didon ou la chaste, tragedy, 1643
• La Jalouse d' elle- même, 1650
• Les Trois Orontes, 1652
• La Folle gageure ou les divertissements de la comtesse de Pembroc, 1653 adaptation of Lope de Vega
• Cassandre, comtesse de Barcelone, tragicomedy, 1653
• L' Inconnue, 1655
• L' Amant ridicule, 1655
• Les Généreux ennemis, 1655
• La Belle plaideuse, 1655
• La Belle invisible ou les Constance éprouvées, 1656
• Les Apparences trompeuses, 1656
• Les Coups d' Amour et de Fortune, 1656
• Théodore, reine de Hongrie, 1658

Volumes of poetry and other work

• Poésies publiées dans le plus beaux Recueil des vers de Malherbe, Racan, etc., 1626
• Lettres publiées dans le Recueil de Faret, 1627
• Paraphrases sur les sept psaumes de la Penitence, en vers, 1627
• Histoire d' indienne Anxandre et d' Orasie, 1629
• Nouvelles et héroïques amoureuses, 1657
• Epîtres en vers et autres oeuvres poétiques, 1659

External links and sources

• Literature by and about François Le Metel de Bois Robert in the catalog that German national library
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
• Meyers Lexicon Great people, Mannheim 1968, p 152

• Roman Catholic priest (17th century)
• Author
• Drama
• Poetry
• Member of the Académie française
• Frenchman
• Born in 1592
• Died in 1662
• Man