Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux [SEP] place of birth
Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux
Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux (16 December 15999 May 1673) was a French poet, born in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. His great-uncle, Geoffroy Vallée, had been hanged in 1574 for the authorship of a book called "Le Flau de la Joy". His nephew appears to have inherited his scepticism, which on one occasion nearly cost him his life; the peasants of Touraine attributed to the presence of the unbeliever an untimely frost that damaged the vines, and
Births.
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- September 7 – Jacob Westerbaen (died 1670), Dutch poet
- December 16 – Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux (died 1673), French poet
Deaths.
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- January 13 – Edmund Spenser (born 1552), English poet, died in Westminster and was buried, at the expense of the Earl of Essex