François-Timoléon de Choisy

Timoléon François, Abbé de Choisy (* October 2, 1644 in Paris, † October 2, 1724 ) was a French writer.

Life

François Timoléon was born the son of a domestic worker of the Duke of Orléans. His mother was Anna of Austria close and was often called by King Louis XIV as an entertainer on the court. Up to the age of eighteen he was wearing because of his mother's eccentricities girl clothes, which he afterwards exchanged for short against costumes of men. Madame de Lafayette gave him the not quite sincere advice to switch back on women's clothes, which he did. He delighted the audience at court with his most extravagant dress, until he was publicly reprimanded by the Duke de Montausier it.

Even as a child, François Timoléon became a pastor and had to later withdraw his benefice at Sainte -Seine in Burgundy, as he ran out due to his extravagant lifestyle the money. Among his new neighbors was with the Baron Bussy a kindred spirit. In the wake of Cardinal de Bouillon in 1676 he traveled to Rome. When he subsequently became seriously ill, he turned abruptly to the religion.

As Abbé de Choisy, he accompanied the Chevalier de Chaumont in 1685 to Siam, where this as an envoy of Louis XIV should act at the court of King Narai. He was ordained and was repeatedly promoted, so 1689 Prior at Saint -Benoit -du -Sault. Already in 1687 the Académie Française has taken him.

Work

De Choisy wrote a number of historical and religious works, among other

• Quatre dialogues sur l' âme de l' immortalité .... ( 1684), written with the Abbé Dangeau and explaining his conversion.
• Traduction de l' imitation de Jesus-Christ (1692 ).
• Histoire de France sous les regnes de Saint Louis de ... Charles V et Charles VI. (5 vols, 1688-1695 ).
• Histoire de l' Eglise. (11 vols, 1703-1723 ).