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Jean Bertaut (1552 – 8 June 1611), French poet, was born atCaen.
He figures withPhilippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet ofBoileau onRonsard:
"Ce poëte orgueilleux, trébuché de si haut,
Rendit plus retenus Desportes et Bertaut."
He wrote light verse to celebrate the incidents of court life in the manner of Desportes, but his verse is more fantastic and fuller of conceits than his master's. He early entered the church, and had a share in theconversion ofHenry IV, a circumstance which assured his career. He was successively councillor of theparlement ofGrenoble, secretary to the king,almoner toMarie de' Medici,abbot of theAbbey [fr] ofAunay-sur-Odon and finally, in 1606,bishop of Sées.[1]
After his 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 hisRecueil de quelques vers amoureux (1602) in 1606. The serious poems in which he celebrated the public events of his later years are dull and lifeless. Bertaut died at Sées on 8 June 1611. His works were edited byAdolphe Chenevière in 1891.[1]
French composerAugustine Renaud d`Allen used Bertaut’s text in her compositionSix Ancient French Airs.[2]
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