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JEAN BERTAUT (1552–1611)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 811 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN BERTAUT (1552–1611)  , French poet, was born at
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Caen in 1552 . He figures with Desportes in the disdainful
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couplet of Boileau on Ronsard: " Ce poete orgueilleux, trebuche de si haut, Rendit plus retenus Desportes et Bertaut." He wrote
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light verse to celebrate the incidents of court
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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
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Grenoble, secretary to the king, almoner to
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Marie de' Medici, abbot of Aulnay and finally, in 16o6, bishop of
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Sees . After his
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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 quelqucs vers amoureux (1602) in 16o6 . The serious poems in which he celebrated the public events of his later years are dull and lifeless . Bertaut died at Sees on the 8th of
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June 1611 . His
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works were edited by M . Ad . Chenevieres in 1891 .

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