Jacques Cassagne [SEP] place of death
Jacques Cassagne
Jacques Cassagne or Jacques de Cassaigne (1 January 1636, Nîmes – 19 May 1679, Paris) was a French clergyman, poet, and moralist.
Biography.
A doctor of theology, he was 'garde' of the king's library and entered the Académie française aged 29. In 1663, he was one of the four founder members of the "Petite Académie", which later gave birth to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. In 1665, he edited the preface to the
; twice reprinted before 1551 (see John Hall's translation, the first into English, 1652; and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's influential translation into French in 1674)
Births.
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Jacques Cassagne (died 1679), French clergyman, poet and moralist
- April 7 – Gregório de Matos, (died 1696), Brazilian Baroque poet
- November 1 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (died 1711),