Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues (Dordogne). After studying at Toulouse, he came to Paris and entered the regiment of the guards, becoming in 1650 gentleman-in-ordinary of the royal household. He died in 1663 in consequence of a kick from his horse.
La Calprenède was the author of several long heroic romances ridiculed by Boileau. They are: Cassandre (5 vols., 1642–1650); Cléopâtre (1648); Faramond (1661); and Les Nouvelles, ou les Divertissements de la princesse Alcidiane (1661) published under his wife's name, but generally attributed to him.
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- 17th-century births
- 1663 deaths
- People from Dordogne
- French dramatists and playwrights
- 17th-century French writers
- 17th-century French novelists
- French male novelists
- French male dramatists and playwrights
