Jean Bertaut

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Jean Bertaut (1552 – 8 June 1611), French poet, was born at Caen.

Life[edit]

He figures with Philippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet of Boileau on Ronsard:

"Ce poëte orgueilleux, trébuché de si haut,
Rendit plus retenus Desportes et Bertaut."

He wrote light verse to celebrate the incidents of court life in the manner of Desportes, but his verse is more fantastic and fuller of conceits than his master's. He early entered the church, and had a share in the conversion of Henry IV, a circumstance which assured his career. He was successively councillor of the parlement of Grenoble, secretary to the king, almoner to Marie de' Medici, abbot of the Abbey [fr] of Aunay-sur-Odon and finally, in 1606, bishop of Sées. ^[1]

After his elevation to the bishopric he ceased to produce the light verse in which he excelled, though his scruples did not prevent him from preparing a new edition of his Recueil de quelques vers amoureux (1602) in 1606. The serious poems in which he celebrated the public events of his later years are dull and lifeless. Bertaut died at Sées on 8 June 1611. His works were edited by Adolphe Chenevière in 1891.^[1][2]

References[edit]

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bertaut, Jean". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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