Guillaume Des Autels

Guillaume Des Autels (* 1529 in Charolles, † 1580 ) was a French poet and linguist.

Life and work

In Autels (also: Des Autelz or Desautels ) came from Burgundy. He studied in Valence. As a poet, he began in the way of Clément Marot, but then moved under the influence of his friend Pontus de Tyard towards Pléiade. In the religious turmoil he stood on the Catholic side, and wrote in 1559 and 1560 on behalf of Charles de Lorraine - Guise appeals to the people. His novel Mythistoire Barragouyne de Fanfreluche et Gaudichon found in the literature increasing attention ( Clément 2005).

The linguistics knows Des Autels as a defender of traditional orthography against radical reform attempts. He delivered himself with the grammarians and spelling reformer Louis Meigret a polemical battle. Meigret had ( according to detailed proposals in his Traité 1542, 1545 ) challenged the opponents of reform in the preface to his translation Lucian (Le Menteur ) downright of 1548. In Autels took up the challenge and published in the same year De l' écriture de la langue Francoise antique et de sa poésie, contre l' orthographe of Maigretistes (originally: Contre Meigret Brève Epitre touchant aucuns points de la langue Francoise, as amended by the publisher. ). This work is lost, but can by the numerous citations in Meigrets response ( Defenses de Louis Meigret 1550 ) are partly reconstructed. Get on the other hand is Des Autels second attack ( Replique de Guillaume of Autels of 20 August 1550), the Meigret parried with his Réponse de Louis Meigret 1551. The redrawn at Hausmann 1980, p 89-112 reasoning shows that Des Autels took the far more reasonable position and put forward against the reported grammarian Meigret also serious linguistic arguments knew.

In Charolles a College is named after Guillaume of Autels.

Works

  • Repos de plus grand travail, Lyon 1550, 1560 (poetry)
  • Replique de Guillaume Des Autelz aux furieuses Defenses de Louis Meigret. Avec la suite du Repos de l' autheur, Lyon 1551 ( polemic plus seal)
  • Amoureux repos, Lyon 1553 ( seal, it also Pontus de Tyard, Aux poètes françois en faveur de Guillaume Des Autelz )
  • Encomium Galliae Belgicae. Versiculi. Guillaume Altario Carolate, Antwerp in 1559; also in: Delitiae C. poetarum Gallorum, ed. Jan Gruter, Frankfurt am Main 1609
  • Remonstrance au peuple de son devoir Françoys en ce temps envers la majesté du roy, à laquelle sont de la paix adjoustez troys Eloges, de la trefve et de la guerre, Paris 1559
  • Harengue au Peuple Francois contre la rebellion, Paris 1560 (http://recherche.univ-lyon2.fr/grac/217-La-Harangue-peuple-francois-Guillaume-Des-Autels-1560-saisie-Guillaume-De-Sauza.html)
  • La Recreation et passe temps des tristes, pour les resjouyr melencoliques, lire les choses plaisantes, traictans de l'art de Aymer, et apprendre le vray art de poésie, Paris 1573, 1862
Valence, Drôme Louis Maigret (grammarian) Integrated Authority File
258518
de