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FRANCOIS DE MAYNARD (1582-1646)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 936 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCOIS DE See also:MAYNARD (1582-1646)  , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Toulouse in 1582 . His See also:father was conseiller in the See also:parlement of the See also:town, and See also:Francois was also trained for the See also:law, becoming eventually See also:president of See also:Aurillac . He became secretary to See also:Margaret of See also:Valois, wife of See also:Henry IV., for whom his See also:early poems are written . He was a See also:disciple of See also:Malherbe, who said that in the workmanship of his lines he excelled See also:Racan, but lacked his See also:rival's See also:energy . In 1634 he accompanied the See also:Cardinal de See also:Noailles to See also:Rome and spent about two years in See also:Italy . On his return to See also:France he made many unsuccessful efforts to obtain the favour of See also:Richelieu, but was obliged to retire to Toulouse . He never ceased to lament his See also:exile from See also:Paris and his inability to be See also:present at the meetings of the See also:Academy, of which he was one of the earliest members . The best of his poems is in See also:imitation of See also:Horace, " Alcippe, reviens dans nos bois." He died at Toulouse on the 23rd of See also:December 1646 . His See also:works consist of odes, epigrams, songs and letters, and were published in 1646 by Maria le See also:Roy de See also:Gomberville .

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