Jean Regnault de Segrais

Jean Regnault de Segrais Jean Renaud de Segrais, ( born August 22, 1624 Caen, † March 15, 1701 ) was a French poet.

Life

De Segrais was recommended as a private secretary for his spirit of Anne Marie Louise d' Orléans and had to correct their writings and publish them. Then he stepped into a similar relationship with Marie- Madeleine de La Fayette, on whose works he was involved in, so that even Zaïde ( 1669) and La princesse de Clèves (1678 ) published by it under his name, and stood by François de La Rochefoucauld and Madame de Sévigné in high esteem.

Since 1662 he was a member of the Académie française ( seat 6 ). 1676 he retreated back to Caen where he died in 1701, after he had restored the local academy. Great fame he gained through his eclogues and pastorals, in which he brought soft and natural feeling in spirited, elegant way to express; he was referred to herein as the successor Racans.

Works

  • Poésies miscellaneous
  • Bérénice ( 1648)
  • Divertissement de la princesse Aurélie ( 1656)
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