Background
Agrippa d'Aubigné was born at Saint-Maury (Saintonge), France, Feb. 8, 1552.
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Agrippa d'Aubigné was born at Saint-Maury (Saintonge), France, Feb. 8, 1552.
His education included Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish.
Despite the considerable bulk of his published works, he was essentially a man of action. Filled with fury, when eight years old, at the sight of Protestant skeletons hung from the battlements of Amboise, he became one of the fiercest, most ardent defenders of Protestantism. As aide-de-camp to Henry of Navarre, he took part in most of the important battles from 1573 to 1595. When Henry, as Henry IV of France, abjured the Protestant faith, D'Aubigné retired to his estates. He opposed the policies of Marie de Médicis, and, in 1620, proscribed for his supposed part in an uprising under his friend Henri de Rohan, he fled to Geneva, where he died on May 9, 1630. D'Aubigné's masterpiece, Les Tragiques (1616), is a stiring, violent poem in seven cantos, much of it written in camp between battles. With pity and indignation D'Aubigne portrays the suffering of the peasants in their ravaged fields, satirizes the administration of justice and the royal court, and depicts the massacres on both sides in the religious wars, concluding with a powerful scene of the Last Judgment. In matters other than religion D'Aubigné exerted himself to be impartial. His most ambitious historical work is the Histoire universelle depuis 1550 jusqu'à l'an 1601 ("Universal History from 1550 to the Year 1601"), which appeared in three volumes between 1616 and 1620.
(Book by d'Aubigne, Theodore-Agrippa)
(348pages. in12. Cartonné.)
Filled with fury, when eight years old, at the sight of Protestant skeletons hung from the battlements of Amboise, he became one of the fiercest, most ardent defenders of Protestantism.
