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Gabriel Bounin was a French author and dramaturgist of the 16th century. He was a lawyer of
/ref> In defiance of the rules of the Pleiad, ''La Soltane'' was a play about a contemporary event, rather than a Classical one. This tragedy marks the first time the Ottomans were introduced on stage in France.''The Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge'' p.41
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Gabriel Bounin was a French author and dramaturgist of the 16th century. He was a lawyer of Châteauroux
Châteauroux (; ; oc, Chasteurós) is the capital city of the French department of Indre, central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are called ''Castelroussins'' () in French.
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in Berry. In 1561, Gabriel Bounin published ''La Soltane'', a tragedy
Tragedy (from the grc-gre, τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', ''tragōidia'') is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character. Traditionally, the intention of tragedy ...
highlighting the role of Roxelane (with no reliable sources or proof) in the execution of Şehzade Mustafa
Şehzade Mustafa (Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده مصطفى; 6 August 1515 – 6 October 1553) was an Ottoman prince and the son of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his consort Mahidevran Sultan. He was the prince-governor of Manisa from 15 ...
, the elder son of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ ...
.''The Literature of the French Renaissance'' by Arthur Augustus Tilley, p.8/ref> In defiance of the rules of the Pleiad, ''La Soltane'' was a play about a contemporary event, rather than a Classical one. This tragedy marks the first time the Ottomans were introduced on stage in France.''The Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge'' p.41
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Works
* ''La Soltane'' * ''Satyre au Roy contre les Republiquains''See also
*Franco-Ottoman alliance
The Franco-Ottoman Alliance, also known as the Franco-Turkish Alliance, was an alliance established in 1536 between the King of France Francis I and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman I. The strategic and sometimes tactical alliance was o ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bounin, Gabriel 16th-century French dramatists and playwrights 1520 births 1604 deaths