Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 - 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist. Events April 4 – King of Spain signs an edit of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain April 9 – Spain recognizes Dutch independence May 23 - Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia. ... Events January 7 - Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter. ... Events Prix de Rome scholarship established for students of the arts. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ...

Biography

La Calprenède was born at the Château of Tolgou, near Sarlat (Dordogne). 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. He died in 1663 in consequence of a kick from his horse. Sarlat-la-Canéda, or simply Sarlat, is a commune of France, in the Dordogne département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. ... Dordogne is a département in central France named after the Dordogne River. ... The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French, in local Toulouse accent) ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced ) is a... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Works

He was the author of several long heroic romances ridiculed by Boileau. They are: Cassandre (10 vols., 1642-1650); Cleopatre (1648); Farainond (1661); and Les Nouvelles, ou les Divertissements de la princesse Alcidiane (1661) published under his wife's name, but generally attributed to him. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, commonly called Boileau, (November 1, 1636 - March 13, 1711) was a French poet and critic. ...

His plays lack the spirit and force that occasionally redeem the novels. The best is Le Comte d'Essex, represented in 1638, which supplied some ideas to Thomas Corneille for his tragedy of the same name. Thomas Corneille (August 20, 1625 - December 8, 1709) was a French dramatist. ...

Reference

• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.