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BERTAUT, JEAN (1552–1611)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 811 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERTAUT, See also:JEAN (1552–1611) , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Caen in 1552. He figures with See also:Desportes in the disdainful See also:couplet of Boileau on See also:Ronsard: " Ce poete orgueilleux, trebuche de si haut, Rendit plus retenus Desportes et Bertaut." He wrote See also:light See also:verse to celebrate the incidents of See also:court See also:life in the manner of Desportes, but his verse is more fantastic and See also:fuller of conceits than his See also:master's. He See also:early entered the See also:church, and had a See also:share in the See also:conversion of See also:Henry IV., a circumstance which assured his career. He was successively councillor of the See also:parlement of See also:Grenoble, secretary to the See also:king, See also:almoner to See also:Marie de' See also:Medici, See also:abbot of Aulnay and finally, in 16o6, See also:bishop of See also:Sees. After his See also: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 See also:June 1611. His See also:works were edited by M. Ad. Chenevieres in 1891.

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