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 BALZAC - LoveToKnow Article on BALZAC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
BALZAC, HONORE DE (1790-1850), French novelist, was born at Tours on the 20th of May 1799.
Balzac was indeed, in no belittling sense of the word, one of the most good-natured of men of genius.
The Balzac s~nor of A. Cabanhs (1899) is chiefly remarkable for its investigations of Balzacs fancy for occult studies, and the first part (Balzac imprimeur) of MM.
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 Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madame de Rambouillet was no admirer of King Louis XIII, and she gratified Tallemant's curiosity with stories of the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIII that were of real historical value.
In the Historiettes he gives finished portraits of Vincent Voiture, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Malherbe, Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear in his work; and he chronicles the scandals of which Ninon de l'Enclos and Angélique Paulet were centres.
Des Réaux was a poet and contributed to the Guirlande de Julie, but it is by his Historiettes that he is remembered.
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Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850), French author, one of the world’s great novelists.
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de (1597?-1654), French letter-writer, essayist, and critic.
In 1834 the French novelist Honoré de Balzac undertook the challenge of bringing together a series of 150 novels, each commenting on an aspect of...
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Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Jean Louis Guez dezhäN lwē gā de bälzäk´, 1597?-1654, French writer.
Romanticism, greatly influenced by the philosophy of Rousseau, was heralded in the writings of Germaine de Staël and François René, vicomte de Chateaubriand.
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 JEAN LOUIS GUEZ DE BALZAC - LoveToKnow Article on JEAN LOUIS GUEZ DE BALZAC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
BALZAC, JEAN LOUIS GUEZ DE (1594-1654), French author, was born at Angoulhme in 1594.
He was early befriended by the duc dEpernon and his son Louis, Cardinal de la Valette, who took him to Rome.
Compliments were showered upon him, he became an habitu of the Hotel de Rambouillet, and his head appears to have been turned a little by his success.
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 René Descartes (1596-1650)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Among his friends were the poets Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, who dedicated his Le Socrate chrétien (1652; “Christian Socrates”) to Descartes, and Théophile de Viau, who was burned in effigy and imprisoned in 1623 for writing verses mocking religious themes.
The Cardinal de Bérulle, who had founded the Oratorian teaching order in 1611 to rival the Jesuit order and who was forming the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement (“Company of the Sacred Sacrament”), a militant, secret society of laymen to fight Protestantism, was impressed and invited Descartes to a conference.
She also is said to have ordered him to write a ballet in verse, La Naissance de la paix (1649; The Birth of Peace), celebrating Christina's role in the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which ended the Thirty Years' War, and a comedy in five acts, now lost.
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 René Descartes and Cartesianism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Théophile de Viau, who was burned in effigy and imprisoned in 1623 for writing verses mocking religious themes.
de Bérulle, who had founded the Oratorian teaching order in 1611 to rival the Jesuit order and who was forming the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement ("Company of the Sacred Sacrament"), a militant, secret society of laymen to fight Protestantism, was impressed and invited Descartes to a conference.
The French physician Louis de La Forge concluded that at death the mind or soul is completely severed from all knowledge of individual bodies.
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 Descartes
Among his friends were the poets Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac [1597 – 18 Feb 1654], who dedicated his Le Socrate chrétien (1652) to Descartes, and Théophile de Viau [1590 – 25 Sep 1626], who was burned in effigy and imprisoned in 1623 for writing verses mocking religious themes.
The Cardinal de Bérulle [04 Feb 1575 – 02 Oct 1629], who had founded the Oratorian teaching order in 1611 to rival the Jesuit order and who was forming the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement, a militant, secret society of laymen to fight Protestantism, was impressed and invited Descartes to a conference.
In Discours de la méthode and in Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii, written by 1628 but not published until 1701, Descartes gave four rules for reasoning: (1) Accept nothing as true that is not self-evident.
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 BALZAC, JEAN LOUIS GUEZ DE
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac (1594 - 1654), French author, was born at Angoulême.
Compliments were showered upon him, he became an habitué of the Hotel de Rambouillet.
In 1631 he published an eulogy of Louis XIII entitled Le Prince; in 1652 the Socrate chrétien, and Aristippe ou de la Cour in 1658.
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Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, French Literature, Biographies
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac[zhAN lwE gA du bAlzAk´] Pronunciation Key, 1597?–1654, French writer.
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 Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Initially a reaction against the coarse behaviour and speech of the aristocracy, this spirit of refinement and bonton was first instituted by the Marquise de Rambouillet in her salon and gradually extended into literature.
A trusted peacemaker, Jesuit missionary Pierre-Jean De Smet mediated several conflicts between Native Americans and the United States government, which was taking their land for white settlers.
Born in Boston, Mass., on Jan. 13, 1899, motion picture producer and director Louis de Rochemont is best known for The March of Time, a highly popular newsreel series on current events that he produced from 1935 to 1951.
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The division was deactivated in 1954 as part of the demobilisation of forces in Korea in the aftermath of the war.
De Funýs suffered from a heart condition and risked a heart attack with every theatrical performance but nevertheless continued to perform regularly in plays like "Oscar".
Louis XIV is a game about power and influence in the French court at the end of the 17th...
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Jean Chrétien devoted more than 30 years of his life to Canadian politics.
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 Rambouillet, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de
Her circle included Mme de Sévigné, Mme de La Fayette, Mlle de Scudéry, the duchesse de Longueville, the duchesse de Montpensier, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Corneille, Richelieu, Malherbe, Racan, Voiture, Bossuet, Chapelain, Scarron, Vaugelas, and La Rochefoucauld.
The conversation and literary criticism of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, as her house was called, aimed solely at refinement and good taste, although the marquise liked to indulge in practical jokes on her guests.
The oldest daughter of the marquise de Rambouillet was Julie d'Angennes (later duchesse de Montausier), to whom the members of the circle addressed the cycle of verses
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 Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 1594 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1641 Descartes published in Latin-because it was dedicated to the Jesuit professors at the Sorbonne in Paris-Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (Meditations on First Philosophy in Which Is Proved the Existence of God and the Immortality of the Soul).
Then Chanut, who was French resident and later ambassador to Sweden, gained an invitation for Descartes to the court of the Swedish monarch, Queen Christina, who by the close of the Thirty Years' War had become one of the most important and powerful monarchs in Europe.
She also is said to have ordered him to write a ballet in verse, La Naissance de la paix (1649; The Birth of Peace), celebrating Christina's role in the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War, and a comedy in five acts, now lost.
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Balzac has been acclaimed for his prose innovations which lent a somewhat mannered precision and clarity to French letters.
He is also credited with the development of a French national style of prose writing.
Originally written as an eulogy of Louis XIII, The Prince was published in 1631 and contains two substantial letters, (together fifty-six pages in length) written to Cardinal Richelieu.
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Blaise de Vigenère wrote translations and commentaries on Caesar and Livy in which he tried to reconstruct ancient Rome from its literary and artistic remains.
In reading the Journal de voyage, McGowan is acutely sensitive to Montaigne's archaeological response to Rome, his recognition of the many layers reposing beneath the surface and of the passage of time inscribed in those layers.
Taking the career of Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac as example, and borrowing liberally from the scholarship of Jean Jehasse, McGowan demonstrates how the idea of Rome was subsumed by French classicism while Paris eventually supplanted Rome as the locus of cultural prestige.
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 Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac 1.2.3. and 4th parts. Translated out of French into English. By Sr. Richard Baker ...
Balzac (1594-1654), a littŽrateur from Angoulme who was patronized by Cardinal Richelieu, is known chiefly for the present work.
Balzac has thus the credit of executing in French prose a reform parallel to Malherbe's in verseÓ (Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition).
His other works include a eulogy to Louis XIII entitled Le Prince (1631); the Socrate chrŽtien (1652); and Aristippe ou de la Cour (1658).
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 Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
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The reference in the inttoduction is preceded by the name of Balzacs in such a way that a reader might think that Poe was identifying Balzac as the author of La Maniere de loden Penser.
Sa pensee sur un ouvrage plein de subtilite and de brillant, 72" (17).
In view of Father Bouhours' usage, it is hard to concur completely with Professor Barzun that evidence of Poe's lack of a command of French is his having written "Rochefoucault with a barely allowable t instead of d, and without the obligatory La before the name" (18).
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 La marquise de Rambouillet
Molière a raillé les manières des familers de ce milieu avec sa pièce «Les Précieuses ridicules».
Le salon de la marquise fut l'un des rares où l'élément féminin était fort présent, les autres salons étant massivement fréquentés par des hommes.
Pour ce faire, Madame de Rambouillet avait enrégimenté un escadron de jeunes filles de la meilleure naissance qui agrémentaient les rencontres par leur esprit et leur charme.
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 UNTRACED QUOTATIONS
The phrase occurs twice in the works of Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594–1654).
De quoi s’agit-il?’ in Jean Chantavoine and Jean Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Le Romantisme dans la musique européenne (Paris, 1955), p.
The earliest I have found is ‘N’ayez pas de zèle’, in C.-A. Sainte-Beuve, ‘Madame de Staël’ (1835): vol.
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