Jean Bertaut

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Jean Bertaut
Bishop of Sées
Church	Catholic Church
Diocese	Diocese of Sées
In office	5 March 1607 – 8 June 1611
Predecessor	Claude de Morenne [fr]
Successor	Jacques Suares [fr]
Orders
Consecration	11 November 1607 by Paul Hurault de L'Hospital [fr]
Personal details
Born	1552 (1552) Donnay, Normandy, Kingdom of France
Died	8 June 1611(1611-06-08) (aged 58–59) Sées, Normandy, Kingdom of France

Jean Bertaut (1552 – 8 June 1611), French poet, was born in Donnay, near Caen.

Life

He figures with Philippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet of Boileau on Ronsard:

"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 the conversion of Henry IV, a circumstance which assured his career. He was successively councillor of the parlement of Grenoble, secretary to the king, almoner to Marie de' Medici, abbot of the Abbey [fr] of Aunay-sur-Odon and finally, in 1606, bishop of Sées.

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 his Recueil 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 by Adolphe Chenevière in 1891.

French composer Augustine Renaud d`Allen used Bertaut’s text in her composition Six Ancient French Airs.

References

Sources

• Fisquet, Honoré (1864). La France pontificale. Métropole de Rouen. Séez. (in French). Volume 14. Paris: E.Repos 1864. Pp. 56-59.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bertaut, Jean". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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