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PASSERAT, JEAN (1534–1602)

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PASSERAT, See also:JEAN (1534–1602) , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Troyes, on the 18th of See also:October 1534. He studied at the university of See also:Paris, and is said to have had some curious adventures —at one See also:time working in a mine. He was, however, a See also:scholar by natural See also:taste, and became eventually a teacher at the See also:College de Plessis, and on the See also:death of See also:Ramus was made See also:professor of Latin in 1572 in the College de See also:France. In the meanwhile Passerat had studied See also:law, and had composed much agreeable See also:poetry in the Pleiade See also:style, the best pieces being his See also:short See also:ode Du Premier jour de See also:mai, and the charming See also:villanelle, J'ai perdu ma tourlerelle. His exact See also:share in the See also:Sayre menippee (See also:Tours, 1594), the See also:great manifesto of the politique or Moderate Royalist party when it had declared itself for See also:Henry of See also:Navarre, is differently stated; but it is agreed that he wrote most of the See also:verse, and the harangue of the See also:guerrilla See also:chief Rieux is sometimes attributed to him. The famous lines Sur la journee de Senlis, in which he commends the duc d'See also:Aumale's ability in See also:running away, is one of the most celebrated See also:political songs in French. Towards the end of his See also:life he became See also:blind. He died in Paris on the 14th of See also:September 1602. See a See also:notice by P. Blanchemain prefixed to his edition of Passerat's Poesies francaises (188o). Among his Latin See also:works should be noticed Kalendae januariae et See also:varia quaedam poemata (2 vols., 1606), ad-dressed chiefly to his friend and See also:patron See also:Henri de Mesmes. For the Satyre menippee see the edition of See also:Charles Read (1876).

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