Jean Chapelain - Jean Chapelain Jean Chapelain (December 4, 1595 - February 22, 1674) was a French poet and "man of letters," the son of a notary for whom Colbert may have once been employed. Chapelain was born in Paris. His father destined him for his own profession; but his mother, who had known Ronsard, had determined otherwise. At an early age Chapelain began to qualify himself for literature, learning, under Nicolas Bourbon, Greek and Latin, and teaching himself Italian and Spanish. Having finished his studies, he was engaged for a while in teaching Spanish to a young nobleman. He was then appointed tutor to the two sons of a M. de la Trousse, grand provost of France. Attached for the next seventeen years to the family of this.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert - Jean-Baptiste Colbert Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) was born on the 6th of September and served as the French minister of finance, for 22 years, under King Louis XIV. He is notable for his work at improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the "brink" of bankruptcy; although, historians note, since Louis spent so much money (on luxury and wars) -- France actually became increasingly impoverished. Colbert worked to create a favourable balance of trade and increase France's colonial holdings. He is considered to be a key figure, in the history of mercantilism. Colbert's market reforms included the importation of Venetian glass and Flemish cloth manufacturing to France. He also founded a royal tapestry works, at Beauvais. Colbert worked to improve the economy.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac - Jean Louis Guez de Balzac Jean Louis Guez de Balzac (1594 - 1654), French author, was born at Angoulême. At the age of eighteen he travelled in the United Provinces with Théophile de Viaud, with whom he later exchanged bitter recriminations. His letters written to his acquaintances and to many who held a high position at the French court gained for him a great reputation. Compliments were showered upon him, he became an habitué of the Hotel de Rambouillet. In 1624 a collection of his Lettres was published, and was received with great favour. From the chateau of Balzac, where he had retired, he continued to correspond with Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and others. In 1634 he was elected to the Academy. He died at Angoulême.
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux - secured for Tallemant an introduction to the Hôtel de Rambouillet. Madame de Rambouillet was no admirer of Louis XIII, and she gratified Tallemant's curiosity with stories of the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIII of real historical value. But the society of the Hôtel de Rambouillet itself opened a field for his acute and somewhat malicious observation. In the Historiettes he gives finished portraits of Voiture, Balzac, Malherbe, Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear in his pages; and he chronicles the scandals of which Ninon de l'Enclos and Angélique Paulet were centres. They are invaluable for the literary history of the time. It has been said that the malicious intention of his work may be partly attributed to his bourgeois extraction and.
1595 - Habsburgs, defeat the Turkish army of Sinan Pasha, securing Transylvanian control over Wallachie. Mehmed III succeeds Murad III as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Births December - Henry Lawes, English musician. December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet. Count Johann von Werth, German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years' War. Bohdan Chmielnicki, a Zaporizhzhya (Zaporozhian) Cossack hetman of Ukraine, noted for his revolt against Poland which began in 1648, and for instigating a massacre of the Jews. Andrej Cergol, Slovene mathematician. Jean Desmarets, French dramatist and miscellaneous writer. Ladislaus IV of Poland. Deaths April 25 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet. James Stewart, Earl of Arran. Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish poet.\n.
Pierre Daniel Huet - Amsterdam and Copenhagen, as well as Stockholm, resulted chiefly in the discovery, in the Swedish royal library, of some fragments of Origen's Commentary on St Matthew, which gave Huet the idea of editing Origen, a task he completed in 1668. He eventually quarrelled with Bochart, who accused him of having suppressed a line in Origen in the Eucharistic controversy. In Paris he entered into close relations with Jean Chapelain. During the famous "dispute of Ancients and Moderns", Huet took the side of the Ancients against Charles Perrault and Jean Desmarets. Among his friends at this period were Valentin Conrart and Paul Pellisson. His taste for mathematics led him to the study of astronomy. He next turned his attention to anatomy, and, being short-sighted, devoted his inquiries mainly to the question of.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux - the amount of chicanery which passed under the name of law and justice. His father died in 1657, leaving him a small fortune, and thenceforward he devoted himself to letters. Such of his early poems as have been preserved hardly contain the promise of what he ultimately became. The first piece in which his peculiar powers were displayed was the first satire (1660), in imitation of the third satire of Juvenal; it embodied the farewell of a poet to the city of Paris. This was quickly followed by eight others, and the number was at a later period increased to twelve. A twofold interest attaches to the satires. In the first place the author skilfully parodies and attacks writers who at the time were placed in the very first rank, such.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné - was somewhat young for the guardianship of a girl, being only twenty-nine, but readers of his niece's letters know how well "Le Bien Bon"--for such is his name in Madame de Sévigné's little language--acquitted himself of the trust. He lived till within ten years of his ward's death, and long after his nominal functions were ended he was in all matters of business the good angel of the family, while for half a century his abbacy of Livry was the favourite residence both of his niece and' her daughter. Coulanges was much more of a man of business than of a man of letters, but either choice or the fashion of the time induced him to make of his niece a learned lady. Jean Chapelain and Gilles Ménage are specially mentioned.
List of French language poets - Apollinaire Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Octave Crémazie Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Jean Chapelain René Char Chrétien de Troyes Paul Claudel Jean Cocteau Jean Daurat Christine de Pisan Pontus de Tyard Joachim du Bellay Antoine Héroet Louise Labé François de Malherbe Stéphane Mallarmé Clément Marot Henri Michaux Jacques Prévert Raymond Queneau Pierre de Ronsard Victor Hugo Melin de Saint-Gelais Saint-Denys Garneau Maurice Scève Léopold Senghor François Villon Vincent Voiture Robert Wace Surrealist Poets Louis Aragon André Breton René Daumal Paul Éluard Symbolist Poets Charles Baudelaire Tristan Corbière Jules Laforgue Comte de Lautréamont Stéphane Mallarmé Gérard de Nerval Arthur Rimbaud Paul Valéry Paul Verlaine Émile Nelligan See also: French literature, List of French language authors, List of French novelists, List of French people, List of Canadians.
List of poets - (1762-1821) Aneirin, medieval epic poet Maya Angelou, (born 1928) Brother Antoninus Chairil Anwar, (Indonesian poet: 1922-1949) Guillaume Apollinaire, (1880-1918) Apuleius Louis Aragon, (1897-1982) Walter Arensberg Conrad (Dada) Tudor Arghezi (Romanian poet) Bonaventura Carles Aribau, (1798-1862) Ludovico Ariosto, (1474-1533) Simon Armitage, (born 1963) Ernst Moritz Arndt Achim von Arnim, (1781-1831) Bettina von Arnim, (1785-1859) Matthew Arnold, (1822-1888) Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet Antonin Artaud, (1896-1948), actor, playwright, poet, essayist John Ashbery, (born 1927) Thomas Ashe, (1836-1889) Anton Askerc, (1856-1912) Douglas Asper Attar, (c. 1130-c. 1230) Margaret Atwood, (born 1939), poet, novelist, essayist W. H. Auden, (1907-1973) Ausonius, (c. 310-395) Miha Avanzo, (born 1949) Margaret Avison, (born 1918) Robert Ayton, (1570-1638) B Bacchylides, (died c. 467 BC) Sutardji Calzoum Bachri, The President of Indonesian Poet Ingeborg Bachmann, (1926-1973) Leonard Bacon, (1802-1881).
List of people by name: Ch - Chanel, Gabrielle, (1883-1971), fashion designer Chaney, Lon, (1883-1930), actor Chang San-feng Chang, Jung Koo, (born 1963), world champion boxer Chang, Michael, American tennis player Chang-lin Tien, (1935-2002), first Asian-American to head a major U.S. university, (Princeton University) Changdong, Lee Changling, Wang, poet Chang, Min Chueh, biologist Chan Bahlum II, (635-702), King of Palenque Chanho, Park, (MLB Player) Channing, Carol, (born 1921), actress Channing, Stockard, actor Channing, W. E, (1780-1842) Chanute, Octave, (1832-1910), American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer Chao, Ma Chapelain, Jean, (1595-1674), poet Chapelle, Howard I, maritime history Chapin, Harry, (1942-1981), singer-songwriter, musician Chaplin, Charlie, (1889-1977), British-born comic film actor and director Chaplin, Charlie (reggae), musician Chaplin, Geraldine, (born 1944), actress Chapman, George, (1560-1634), poet Chapman, Graham, (1941-1989), British actor, composer, writer, producer (Monty Python) Chapman, John, (born 1774), ("Johnny.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (November 2, 1699 - December 6, 1779) is considered by some to be the greatest of the 18th-century French painters. He is known for his beautifully textured still lifes as well as his sensitive and touching genre paintings. He was born, lived and died in Paris. Simple, even stark, but treasured paintings of common household items (Still Life with a Smoker's Box) and an uncanny ability to portray children's innocence in a nonsentimental manner (Boy with a Top) makes his paintings universal across time. He was the son of a cabinetmaker, and though largely self-taught, he was greatly influenced by the realism and subject matter of the 17th-century Low Country masters. His early support came from patrons in the French aristocracy, including.
Jean Cocteau - Jean Cocteau French literature > Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau (July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, and filmmaker. Born Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau, at Maisons-Laffitte, France, a small town near Paris. His versatility, unconventionality, and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Despite his achievements in virtually all literary and artistic fields, Cocteau insisted that he was primarily a poet and that all his work was poetry. As a leading member of the surrealist movement, he had great influence on the work of others, including the group of composer friends in Montparnasse known as Les Six. On the sunny afternoon of August 12, 1916, Pablo Picasso and his new girlfriend, the fashion model Pquerette, Max Jacob, Ortiz de Zarate,.
Jean-Michel Basquiat - Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) was an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a Puerto Rican and his father of Haitian origin. He had started as a street artist painting graffiti art and then he became a very popular and successful avant-garde artist. His style was very original - nervous, fierce and energetic. Basquiat´s career divides into three broad though overlapping phases: In the earliest, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, most often depicting skeletal figures and mask-like faces that signal his obsession with mortality, and imagery derived from his street existence, such as automobiles, buildings, police, children's sidewalk, games and graffiti. A middle period from late 1982 to 1985 features multipanel paintings and individual.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Swiss-French philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer. Born in Geneva, Switzerland , and died in Ermenonville (28 miles northeast of Paris). His mother died at his birth and his father abandoned him as a child. Rousseau contended that man is essentially good, a "noble savage" when in the state of nature (the state of all the "other animals", and the condition humankind was in before the creation of civilization and society), and that good people are made unhappy and corrupted by their experiences in society. He viewed society as "artificial" and "corrupt" and held that the furthering of society results in the continuing unhappiness of humankind. Rousseau's essay, "Discourse on the.
Jean Joseph Marie Amiot - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718 - 1793), a French Jesuit missionary, was born at Toulon in February 1718. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China. He soon won the confidence of the emperor Qianlong and spent the remainder of his life at Beijing, where he died October 9, 1793. He used a Chinese name (錢德明) while he was in China. Amiot made good use of the advantages which his situation afforded, and his works did more than any before to make known to the Western world the thought and life of the Far East. His Dictionnaire tatare-mantchou-français (Paris, 1789) was a work of great value, the language having been previously quite.
Jean-Jacques Ampère - Jean-Jacques Ampère Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800-1864), French philologist and man of letters The only son of Andre Marie Ampere was born at Lyons, France on August 12, 1800. He studied the folk-songs and popular poetry of the Scandinavian countries in an extended tour in northern Europe. Returning to France in 1830, he delivered a series of lectures on Scandinavian and early German poetry at the Athenaeum in Marseilles. The first of these was printed as De l'Histoire de la poésie (1830), and was practically the first introduction of the French public to the Scandinavian and German epics. Moving to Paris, he taught at the Sorbonne, and became professor of the history of French literature at the Collège de France. A journey in northern Africa (1841) was followed.
Jean Destrehan Roger - Jean Destrehan Roger Jean Roger was a flight attendant on American Airlines flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. A resident of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, she was survived by her parents and her elder brother. Her father is now leading a campaign for lethal weapons in every cockpit as well as pepper spray, mace, or stun guns for every flight attendant. She was killed at age 24 in the crash. Tributes and Comments See September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/Casualties..
Jean-François Millet - Jean-François Millet Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. He is noted especially for his scenes of peasant farmers. Millet was born in Gruchy, Normandy and moved to Paris in 1838. He received his academic schooling with Paul Dumouchel, and with Jérome Langlois in Cherbourg. After 1840 he turned away from the official fashion style and came under the influence of Honoré Daumier. In 1849 he withdraw to Barbizon to apply himself to painting many often poetic peasant scenes. His work, such as The Gleaners (1848), depicting the poorest of peasant women stooping in the fields to glean the leftovers from the harvested field, is a powerful and timeless.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Jean-Paul Sartre zh-cn:让·保罗·萨特 Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, novelist and critic. His longtime companion was Simone de Beauvoir, whom he met at the École Normale Supérieure in 1929. There were two main periods in his career. The first period was defined by his work Being and Nothingness. He believed in the fundamental freedom of human beings and reflected on what he saw as the unbearable nature of that freedom. In the second major period in his career, Sartre was known as a politically engaged intellectual. He embraced Communism, though he never officially joined the Communist party. Sartre spent much of his life attempting to reconcile his existentialist ideas, which claimed that one must self-determine one's existence, with.
