Agrippa d'Aubigné
Agrippa d'Aubigné | |
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| Born | 8 February 1552 Château de Saint-Maury, Pons, Charente-Maritime, France |
| Died | 29 April 1630 (aged 78) Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Nationality | French |
| Period | 16th century |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Literary movement | Baroque |
Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (French pronunciation: [teo.dɔʁ aɡʁipa dobiɲe], 8 February 1552 – 29 April 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, the English poet Keith Bosley called d'Aubigné "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Bosley added, however, that after d'Aubigné's death, he "was forgotten until the Romantics rediscovered him."