Jacques de Coras (1625 – 24 December 1677) was a French poet born in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

. Grandson of the

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jurist

Jean de Coras Jean de Coras, also called Corasius (1515–1572) was a French jurist. Life Born in Réalmont as the son of a notary, he studied law in Toulouse, Cahors, Orléans and perhaps also in other cities, under teachers such as Franciscus Curtis junior ...

, he was raised in the Protestant

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. After serving as a cadet in the military, he studied theology, and exercised the functions of a Protestant minister in

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. He was, during the same time, associated with the person of

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, and he converted to Catholicism. He mixed to good effect his poetic studies and his religious work. He died in 1677.

Works

*''la Conversion de Jacques de Coras, dédiée à nosseigneurs du clergé de France''; 1665, Paris, in-12. *''Jonas, ou Ninive pénitente''; 1663, Paris, in-12. *Three poems, ''Josué, Samson,'' and ''David'', were published under the title ''Œvres poétiques''; 1665, Paris, 1n-12.

Sources

*This article, in its inaugural (Nov 2005) edition, consists largely of material translated from the article, Coras (Jacques de), in the French-language ''Nouvelle Biographie Général:'' 1860, Paris: Fermin Didot Frères. vol.xi, column 764. That article, itself, gives as a reference, Moréri, ''Grand dict. hist.'' Writers from Toulouse 1625 births 1677 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism 17th-century French poets 17th-century French male writers 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights {{France-poet-stub