Jean Dehénault
Jean Hesnault (or Hénaut, Dehénault, d'Hénault, de Hénault), 1611–1682, was a French poet, libertine in morals and thought, friend of Molière and Chapelle. In addition to his original production, he translated Latin poems with a materialist tendency (beginning of De natura rerum by Lucretius, chorus of the second act of the Troade by Seneca..).
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Jean Dehénault
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- 1611
- Died
- 1682
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- French
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1611
Jean Dehénault born.
1682
Jean Dehénault died.
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• Œuvres diverses..., Paris, 1670. • Dialogues ou Entretiens..., Rouen, 1709. (Same content as the previous edition.) • Pieces published in various collections. • Œuvres, ed. by Fr. Lachèvre, Paris, Champion, 1922. • Some poems of Hénault can be found in Alain Niderst, La poésie à l'âge baroque, Paris, Laffont, coll. Bouquins, 2005, pp. 767–774.
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- René Pintard, Le libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle, Paris, 1943, 2 volumes. (Repr. Slatkine, 1995, 2000, 2003.)
- René Pintard : « Un ami mal connu de Molière : Jean de Hénault », Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, septembere-October 1972, p. 954-975.
- Alain Niderst : « Jean Hénault (suite) », Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France, septembre-|octobre 1978, p. 707-721.
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