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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis was born on April 1, 1613 at Saint-Denis-le-Guast, near Coutances, the seat of his family in Normandy.
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis was born on April 1, 1613 at Saint-Denis-le-Guast, near Coutances, the seat of his family in Normandy.
He was a pupil of the Jesuits at the College de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Paris; then a student at Caen. For a time he studied law in Paris at the College d'Harcourt (now Lycée Saint-Louis).
In his youth a soldier, courtier, and a brilliant figure of the literary circles of Paris, in 1661 he was exiled for political reasons, went to Holland and then to London, where he spent the remainder of his life, except for a visit to Holland (1664 - 1670). He was not primarily a writer; he wrote to please his friends and occupy his leisure time. He was held in high esteem as a representative of French culture by London society and the court, and is the only Frenchman to be honored with burial in Westminster Abbey. He died in London, September 29, 1703. Saint-Évremond is historically important since he transmitted the ideas of the 16th-century freethinkers and the spirit and forms of expressions of the 17th-century mondaine epicureanism to the Enlightenment. He exerted considerable influence until the middle of the 18th century, when the Enlightenment came into its own, and he is still admired for his free and independent mind and for the urbanity, wit, and rare delicacy of his style. Saint-Évremond's important works are Conversation du maréchalmarechal d'Hocquincourt avec le Père Canaye (1656; "Conversation of the Marshal d'Hocquincourt with Father Canaye"), Réflexions sur les divers génies du peuple romain dans les différents temps de la république (1663; "Reflections on the Diversified Character of the Romans During the Different Periods of the Republic"), De la tragédie ancienne et moderne (1672; "On Tragedy Ancient and Modern"), and Sur les poèmes des anciens (1685; "On the Poems of the Ancients").
Saint-Évremond wrote for his friends, not for publication; but a few of his pieces were leaked to the press in his lifetime. The 1705 edition of his works is largely superseded by a modern collection of his prose works and letters, published in 1962. His poems, mainly occasional pieces, are negligible; but Les Académiciens (1643), a comedy in verse, is still amusing, as is his prose comedy “in the English style, ” Sir Politick Would-Be (1664).
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Quotations:
"Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it. "
"The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart. "
"It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was. "
"There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. "
"The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. "
