Nicolas Faret

Nicolas Faret (* 1596 in Bourg -en- Bresse, † September 8, 1646 in Paris) was a French politician and author.

Nicolas Faret was the son of a shoemaker. Well thanks to the support of a wealthy godfather he could study at a Jesuit college in Paris and then returned to Bourg, where he was working as a lawyer. After Paris he returned to devote himself to both his professional advancement as well as the writing.

His political career brought Faret in the offices of Secretary of Henri de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt, a Navy secretary, a secretary of the Army of Italy and a Privy Council and Secretary.

Faret found contact with Claude Favre de Vaugelas and Marc -Antoine Girard de Saint -Amant and also visited the literary circle of Valentin Conrart. Through this connection he coined with the beginnings of the French Academy, founded in 1634, whose seat N ° 9 he took the first. He wrote both poetry and prose ( including some historical works such as the translation of the breviary from urbe condita of Eutropius, 1621). Some effect showed his socio-educational treatise l' homme ou l' Art de Honnête plaire à la cour (1630 ), one of the numerous savoir-vivre - works of the 17th century, which should teach the fine handling of the noble courts.

Paul Pellisson ruled on Faret: " Il avait l' esprit bien fait beaucoup de genie pour la langue et pour l' Eloquence. " ( German: " He had a well-trained mind, understood very much of language and eloquence. " ) Nicolas Boileau wrote about Faret who likes visited drinking bars with his friends, the line: " ... on vit avec Faret, Charbonner de ses vers des murs d'un cabaret. " ( " ... With Faret experienced together one is that the walls of cabarets were black [ have been described over and over that with a charcoal pencil ] of his verses. " )