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 (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.
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.[1][2][3] 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.
Works online
- 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
References
- ^ "Textual References: References to Pharamond in The Female Quixote". Arabella's Romances. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Textual References: References to Cassandra in The Female Quixote". Arabella's Romances. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Textual References: References to Cleopatra in The Female Quixote". Arabella's Romances. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
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