RACAN  , HONOR$ DE BUEIL, See also:

• MARQUIS

MARqUIS DE (1589–1670), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the See also:

• CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

chateau of La See also:

• ROCHE, SIR BOYLE, BART

Roche-Racan in 1589 . He became See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry IV. and then entered the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, seeing some active service . Racan was very poor and was practically uneducated, for, if his own See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account may be credited, he had not learnt even Latin . But in See also:

• MIDDLE

middle See also:

• LIFE

life he inherited some See also:

• PROPERTY

property, and he was thus able to devote himself to the practice of See also:

• POETRY

poetry, in which he was the faithful, and perhaps the most distinguished, See also:

• DISCIPLE

disciple of See also:

• MALHERBE, FRANCOIS DE (1555-1628)

Malherbe . He had known Malherbe when he was a page at the court of Henry IV., and had See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early contributed to the fashionable albums of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . In 1625 he published his most important See also:

• WORK

work, Bergeries, a dramatic See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral in five acts, a See also:

• PART

part of which, entitled Arthenice, was played in 1618 . Racan was also the author of See also:

• SEPT

Sept psaumes (1631), Odes sacrees tirees See also:

• DES

des psaumes de See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David (1651), Dernieres oeuvres et poesies chretiennes (166o), in all of which he was hampered by his inability to read the sacred writings except in other French paraphrases . He was one of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original members of the French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy . He died in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1670 . His fEuvres completes were edited by See also:

• TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

Tenant de Latour in 1857, and the edition includes a See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical See also:

• NOTICE

notice . See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi .