René Auguste Constantin de Renneville

René Auguste Constantin de Renneville (* 1650, † 1723) was a French author and well-known prisoner of the Bastille.

Life

Renneville came from Caen, left as a Reformed Protestant France in 1699 as a result of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and moved to the Netherlands. When he went back in 1702 to the French court, he fell victim to a smear campaign and was detained without trial in the Bastille, whose prisoner he remained until 1713. Is a series of poems this captivity, by himself as " otia bastiliaca " survived on the edges of an edition of the Auteurs déguisés (Paris, 1690), which was rediscovered in 1906 by James Tregaski.

Renneville was released on intervention of Queen Anne. His four-volume French Inquisition, the report of his imprisonment, he wrote in French in the following years in exile. The first publication took place in Amsterdam at Étienne Roger, Volume 1, 1715, the following volumes published 1719. The work was dedicated to George I of Great Britain and appeared almost simultaneously in an abridged English edition in London and in an illustrated edition in Nuremberg. A Dutch translation followed in 1717 The publication of literary studies worthy of note. Renneville sets with their continuing the current realism French political journalism in a roman -compatible format. The English edition is supported among others by William Taylor, who moved four years later Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, a title that keeps up with the Renneville in the bold intensity of descriptions.

End of his life, 1723, Renneville major of artillery was in the service of the Hessian Elector. Moreover, the ten volumes of the Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l' établissement de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales aux Provinces Unies issued by Renneville.

Comments

Works

• Cantiques de l' écriture sainte paraphrasés s sonnets (Amsterdam: Étienne Roger, 1703).
• L' inquisition Françoise ou l' histoire de la Bastille. Par Mr. Constantin de Renne Ville [ Volume 1 ] (Amsterdam: E. Roger, 1715 ).

• [ German: ] unmasked and anyone French Inquisition shown on display, or: historian of the Bastille (1715 )
• [English, shortened: ] The French Inquisition: or, The History of the Bastille in Paris ( A. Bell, T. Varnham, J. Osborne, W. Taylor, J. Baker, London 1715 ).
• [ Dutch: ] History of van de Bastille inquisite van State in Vrannryk (Amsterdam 1717).

• Psaumes de la Penitence paraphrasés s sonnets (La Haye 1715 ).
• L' inquisition Françoise ou l' histoire de la Bastille. Par Mr. Constantin de Renneville, 4 volumes (E. Roger, Amsterdam 1719).
• L' inquisition Francoise: ou, L' histoire de la Bastille (B. Lakeman, Amsterdam: / J. & H. Verbeek, Leiden, 1724).
• Supplément à l' histoire de l' inquisition Francoise ou de la Bastille ( Étienne Roger, Amsterdam 1719).
• Poème en vers libre pour le jour de l' heureuse naissance de SASM Charles, Landgrave de Hesse ( Cassel 1722).
• Reports of voiages qui ont servi à l' établissement & aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formée dans les Provinces - Unies of Pais -Bas ( JF Bernard, Amsterdam 1725).
• Oeuvres diverses spiritual contenant poésies chrétiennes (Amsterdam 1725).
• Anecdotes bas - normandes, 1724, Reed. par Paul Le Cacheux ( Impr de l' Eure, Evreux 1899).