Charles Porée (4 September 1675 – 11 January 1741) was a French priest, Jesuit, educator,

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. All his life,

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, who was his pupil, kept a profound reverence for him. Charles Porée was the son of Thomas Porée and Madeleine Richer from

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. His brother Charles-Gabriel was also a writer.

Selected works

* ''De Libris qui vulgo dicuntur romanenses'', Discours prononcé le 25 février 1736 au collège Louis-le-Grand, Paris : Bordelet * ''La Mandarinade, ou, Histoire comique du mandarinat de M. l’abbé de Saint-Martin, marquis de Miskou'', À Siam .e. Caen; & se trouve à Caen, Chez Manoury fils, l’aîné, 1769 * ''Caecus Amor ou L’Amour aveugle'' * ''Agapitus martyr'' * ''Mauritius imperator'' * ''Regulus'' * ''Brutus primus Romanorum consul'' * ''Discours sur la satire'' * ''De theatro, Discours sur les spectacles'', 1733 * ''De criticis oratio'' * ''L’Homme instruit par le spectacle, ou le Théâtre changé en école de vertu''

Modern editions

* ''Théâtre jésuite néo-latin et Antiquité : sur le ''Brutus'' de Charles Porée (1708)'', éd. Édith Flamarion, Rome, École française de Rome, 2002, 530 p. * ''Discours sur la satire'', éd. Luís dos Santos, Paris, , 2005. * ''Discours sur les spectacles'', éd. Édith Flamarion, Pierre Brumoy, Toulouse, Société de Littératures Classiques, 2000.

Bibliography

* Joseph de La Servière, ''Un professeur d'Ancien Régime : Le père Charles Porée, S. J., 1676–1741'', Oudin, 1899 * Georges Mancel, « Notice sur Charles Porée », ''Poètes normands'', Éd. Louis-Henri Baratte, Paris, Amédée Bedelet, Martinon, Dutertre et Pilout, 1846 * M.Alleaume,
Notice biographique & littéraire sur les deux Porée
', page 87, in ''Académie nationale des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Caen'', 1852 {{DEFAULTSORT:Poree, Charles 1675 births 1741 deaths Writers from Normandy 17th-century French Jesuits 18th-century French Jesuits French educational theorists 17th-century French educators 18th-century French educators 17th-century French male writers 18th-century French male writers 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights 18th-century French dramatists and playwrights Lycée Louis-le-Grand teachers