Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues then within Guyenne. After studying at Toulouse, he came to Paris and entered the regiment of the guards, becoming in 1650 gentleman-in-ordinary of the royal household.
Also recorded as Gaultier de Coste, Seigneur de La Calprenède
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède
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- Died
- 1663 · Les Andelys.
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- France
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- writer · playwright · novelist
- Education
- Faculté de Droit de Toulouse
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- French
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Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues then within Guyenne. After studying at Toulouse, he came to Paris and entered the regiment of the guards, becoming in 1650 gentleman-in-ordinary of the royal household.
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He died in 1663 in consequence of a kick from his horse. La Calprenède wrote several long heroic romances that were later ridiculed by Boileau, and most of them were also referenced in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. They are: Cassandre (5 vols, 1642–1650); Cléopâtre (1648); Faramond (1661); and Les Nouvelles, ou les Divertissements de la princesse Alcidiane (1661) published under his wife's name, but generally attributed to him. His Le Comte d'Essex, produced in 1638, supplied some ideas to Thomas Corneille for his tragedy of the same name.
• Édouard, 1640 • Phalante, 1642 • Herménigilde, 1643 • Jeanne, reyne d’Angleterre, 1638 • La Bradamante, 1637 • La Mort de Mitridate, 1637 • La Mort des enfants d’Hérodes, ou Suite de Mariane, 1639 • Le Clarionte, ou le Sacrifice sanglant, 1637 • Le Comte d’Essex, 1638
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Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède is recorded as writer, playwright and novelist.
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1609
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède born.
1663
Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède died at Les Andelys.
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- 1.C’est à tort que Richetot avance que La Calprenède . C’est avec moins de raison encore que Guy Patin écrivait le : Peut-être s’agissait-il d’une autre dame La Calprenède, car Madeleine de Lyée survécut à La Calprenède, et est enterrée à Paris, dans l’église Saint-Sulpice, le . Elle laisse une fille, Jeanne de La Calprenède, qui épouse, en 1669, Armand de Coustin de Bourzolles de Caumont, vicomte de Beaurepos.
- 2.Juba est le principal héros de la Cléopâtre.
- 3.Lettres de madame de Sévigné, de sa famille et de ses amis. Lavigne et Chamerot. 1. 1836.
- 4.Son frère Pierre Corneille l’estimait également beaucoup.
- 5.« Jean Loret - Mort de Gauthier de Costes, Sieur de La Calprenède », Académie de Chartres.
- 6.Benjamin Wells, « La Calprenède and Scudéry », In: The Sewanee Review, 6.4 (1898), .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Duckett fils, Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture, , Paris, Michel Lévy, 1873, .
- Ferdinand Höfer, Nouvelle biographie générale, t. , Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1859, .
- Hippolyte Lucas, Histoire philosophique et littéraire du théâtre français depuis son origine, Paris, Charles Gosselin, 1843, .
- Maurice Magendie, Le Roman français au , De lAstrée au Grand Cyrus, Droz, 1932, p. 195.
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