François Tallement (1620,
La Rochelle
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– 6 May 1693,
Paris
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) was a French churchman and translator. He is often known as l'Aîné (''the Elder'') to distinguish him from his cousin
Paul Tallement le Jeune.
Biography
The brother of
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
Gédéon Tallemant, Sieur des Réaux (7 November 1619 – 6 November 1692) was a French writer known for his ''Historiettes'', a collection of short biographies.
Biography
Born at La Rochelle, he belonged to a wealthy middle-class Huguenot fa ...
, he was
almoner
An almoner (} ' (alms), via the popular Latin '.
History
Christians have historically been encouraged to donate one-tenth of their income as a tithe to their church and additional offerings as needed for the poor. The first deacons, mentioned ...
to
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
for 24 years, then first almoner to Madame. He was elected a member of the
Académie française
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...
in 1651.
Paul Pellisson
Paul Pellisson (30 October 1624 – 7 February 1693) was a French author.
Pellisson was born in Béziers, of a distinguished Calvinist family. He studied law at Toulouse, and practised at the bar of Castres. Going to Paris with letters of intr ...
said of him "He had a mind, he did not even miss knowing.",
["Il avoit de l'esprit, il ne manquoit pas même de savoir." – Paul Pellisson, ''Histoire de l'Académie françoise'', volume I, p. 366 (1653)] whilst one historian in the Académie stated:
Works
We have two translations by him (adjudged mediocre by his contemporaries):
*''Vies des hommes illustres'' from
Plutarch
Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''P ...
, in six volumes (1663–65)
*''Histoire de
Venise
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islan ...
'' by
Giovan Battista Nani
Giovan Battista Nani (30 August 1616, Venice – 5 November 1678, Venice), in French ''Jean Baptiste Felix Gaspard Nani'', was a Venetian ambassador, librarian, archivist, amateur botanist and historian, born into a patrician family. For 25 years ...
, in 4 volumes (1689)
His other works are six discourses he made in the Académie. In one of these he declares:
References
External links
Académie française
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tallement, Francois
1620 births
1693 deaths
Greek–French translators
Italian–French translators
Members of the Académie Française
17th-century French translators