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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90369	The history of the French Academy, erected at Paris by the late famous Cardinal de Richelieu, and consisting of the most refined wits of that nation. Wherein is set down its original and establishment, its statutes, daies, places, and manner of assemblies, &c. With the names of its members, a character of their persons, and a catalogue of their works. / Written in French, by Mr. Paul Pellison, counseller and secretary of the King of France.; Relation contenant l'histoire de l'Académie française. English	Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693.; Some, Henry.	1657 (1657)	Wing P1110; Thomason E1595_1; ESTC R203126	122,702	275

of Estate in ordinary He had likewise very honourable employment at the Commission to establish the Parliament at Pau and in the year 1635. the Intendance of justice in the Kings Army where the late King Louis 13. the Court of Soissons and the Cardinall de Richelieu were in person He was nominated to be one of the Commissioners in the triall of the Marshall de Marillae but the Marshall excepted against him as his Capitall Enemie and one that had made a Latin Satyr in riming prose as well against him as against his Brother the Lord Keeper of the Seales It has bin reported of him since that he denyed before the King and that with an Oath that he was the Author of that piece that yet afterwards when the same exception was made against him another time he owned what he had formerly denyed Whereupon the King in choler caused him to be Clapt up As for his own part in the Observations which he had made upon the tryal of Marillac he only protests that he never made any Oath before the King without saying any thing more of that business But I know very well what he has said of it to his most familiar friends and I have had very private memoires concerning it which in a word may be reduced to this that being desirous to withdraw himself out of the number of the judges he himself caused that Petition of the Marshals excepting against him to be suggested and that his artifice being discovered by some potent persons that were his Enemies raised the Kings displeasure Most certain it is that after the last petition of exception which was presented against him at Ruel where the tryall was he was committed by the King who was then at S. Germain and carryed the same day to Villepreux and that during his imprisonment to make his peace at Court he wrote those Obervations I spake of which got him his Liberty Afterwards he collected divers pieces of severall Authors in defence of the King and his Officers and printed them with this title A Collection of pieces useful for a Historie and put before it that long Preface which is as 't were an Apology for the Cardinal de Richelieu He was a man of a good aspect of a hot Spirit and very resolute he spoke and writ very well and did infinitely love the excercises of the Academie And 't is said they were not unprofitable to him and that there appears a vast difference between those pieces he wrote before and those he wrote after the establishment of this Body 'T was he that read there the first discourse of the twenty which I formerly mention'd I say that read there for through having gon through many Offices and in particular that of advocate General he was alwayes accustomed to speak in publicke he protested that never any Assembly appeared more awfull to him then this and therefore he made use of the Liberty which the Statute gives to all the Academiciens to read their Orations if they please instead of speaking them I have heard some sayings which are said to be his that me thinks deserve to be related When Monsieur de Bouteville's triall was he made a Factum for him which was as eloquent as bold and the Cardinall having objected to him that it was to condemn the justice of the King Pardon me said he to him it is to justifie his mercy if he be so good as to make use of it towards one of the valiantest men in his Kingdom One day as he accompanyed Monsieur de Saint Preüil who solicited the Duke of Montmorency's pardon and exprest much zeale for it the King said to him I believe that Monsieur du Chastelet would have lost an arme to save M. de Montmorency I would Sir have lost them both answer'd he for they are unable to do you service and have saved one that hath won you battaills and might yet win you more At his coming out of prison the Cardinall making some excuse for his confinement I make a great difference answer'd he between the evill your Eminence does and that which it permits and shall be never the lesse obliged to serve you And a little while after being carryed to the Kings Chappel who did not look upon him nay it seems did on purpose turn his head another way as if out of a kind of shame to see a man whom he had lately treated in that manner He stept to Monsieur de S. Simon and said to him I beseech you Sir tell the King I forgive him with all my heart and do desire he would do me the honour to look on me Monsieur de S. Simon told the King who laughed at it and afterwards was very kind to him He dyed being forty three years and five months old April 6. 1636. of a quartan ague and as I have heard some say through the Physicians fault and for having bin too much blooded He left works both in Verse and Prose That which I have seen in Verse is the Advice to the absent against those that were then at Brussells with the Queen Mother Mary de Medicis and Monsieur the Kings onely Brother A pretty long Satyre Against the Court-life which begins Sous un calme trompeur c. which has bin falsly attributed to Theophile Another cruel and bloody Satyre against a Magistrate under the name of *** His works in Prose are Prose rimée or Prose in rime in Latin against the Marillacs Observations on the trial of the Marshal de Marillac The preface to The Collection of pieces usefull to a Historie His Style especially in this preface is magnifick and stately perhaps even to excesse He had begun another piece in answer to the Abbot of S. German as I said elsewhere but he dyed before he had finish't it and what he did was never seen MONSIEUR HABERT PHILIP HABERT was of a very antient fami●ie in Paris of which there are at this day some in the greatest offices belonging to the Robe and it hath had very honourable alliances Of five Brothers that were of them this was the second and the Abbot of Cerisy the third In his Childhood he gave tokens of very much Genius for Learning but after he had finish't his studies the employments into which he entred insensibly engaged him in the profession of armes The last in which he dyed was that of Commissarie of the Artillerie which had bin given him by Monsieur de Mesteraie of whom he was extraordinarily beloved He was present at the most remarkable transactions of those times at the battaile of Avein at the passage of Bray at the seiges of la Motte Nancy and Landrecy But in the year 1637. some troops of the French Army having received order to besiege the Castle of Emery betwixt Monts and Valenciennes as he was amongst the ammunition of war which he had the conduit of a Soldiers march falling into a great barrel of powder b●ew up a wall under whose

wedding of Lorenzo Maucini a Gentle man of Rome that divers persons of qualitie among the guests to give some divertisement to the Ladies and because t was the time of Carnaval set themselves at first extempore aferwards with a little premeditation to receit some sonnets comedies discourses which gave them the name of Bellihumori That afterwards taking an affection insensib●y to these exercises they resolved to form an Academie of good literature That then they changed the name of Belli humori into that of Humoristi and chose for their devise a Cloud which being formed of salt exhalations from the Sea falls down again in a sweet and gentle shoure with that of the Poet Lucretius for the Motto Redit agmine dulci. The French Academie did not arise indeed from an accidentall meeting as that did But certaine it is that those which began it scarce thought of any thing lesse then that which happened afterward About the year 1629. some Gentlemen lodging in severall places of Paris and finding nothing more incommodious in that City then to go many times to seek one another and all in vain took a resolution to meet together one day in a week at some one of their lodgings They were all persons of Learning of Extraordinary merit Monsieur God●au now Bp of Grasse who then was not a Churchman Mounsieur de Gombauld Monsieur Chapelain Monsieur Conrart Monsieur Giry the late Monsieur Habert Commissarie of the Artillerie Monsieur the Abbot of Cerisy his brother Monsieur de Serizay and Monsieur de Malleville They mett at Monsieur Conrarts whose lodgings were the most commodious to receive them and in the heart of the Citty from whence all the rest were almost equally distant There they entertained themselves very familiarly as it is usuall in an ordinary visit with all kind of things affairs news and good learning And if any of the Company had composed any Work as it often happened he communicated it voluntarily to the rest who freely told him their opinions Their conferences were concluded sometimes with a walk and sometimes with a collation Thus they continued three or four yeares and as I have heard divers of them say with extream pleasure and incredible advantage In so much as even at this day when they talke of those times and of the first age of the Academie they speak of it as of a golden age during which withal the innocency and all the liberty of the primitive times without noise and without pomp and without any other laws then those of Friendship they enjoyed whatsoever an ingenious Society and a Rational life has either sweet or charming They had made an order not to speake of it to any body which was very exactly observed for a time The first that failed in it was Monsieur de Malleville for t is no hurt to accuse him of a fault which the happinesse of the event has excursed He had said something of it to Monsieur Faret who had then newly printed his Honeste-Homme and who having obtained Leave to be at one of their conferences brought with him a Copie of his Book which he gave them He returned with very much Satifaction as well with their judgments which they gave of his book as with all that pass't in the rest of the conversation But as 't is a hard matter that a secret to which we have once given vent should not soon after become publick and that another should be more faithfull to us then we have been to our selves Monsieur Desmarests and Monsieur de Boisrobert knew of these meetings by meanes of Mr. Faret Mr. Desmarets came thither severall times and read there the fifth Volume of Ariana which he then composed Mr. de Boisrobert desired also to be present at them and there was no colour in the world to deny him admittance for besides that he was a friend to most of these Gentlemen even his fortune procured him some respect and rendered him the more considerable He then was admitted and when he observed in what manner works were there examined and that it was not a businesse of complements and flattteries where each one commends that he might be commended but that they did boldly and freely censure even the least faults he was filled with joy and admiration He was then in his greatest favour with the Cardinal de Richelieu and his chiefest care was to recreare the spirits of his Master after the noise perplexties of busines as well by pleasant stories at which he was the best of any man in the world as in telling him all the pretty news of the Court and Town and this divertisement was so usefull to the Cardinal that his Cheif Physitian Monsieur Citois was wont to say to him My Lord wee 'll do all we can for your health but all our drugs are worth nothing unlesse you add thereto a little of Boisrobert Amongst these familiar discourses Mr. de Boisrobert who entained him with all kind of news omitted not to make an advantageous recitall to him of the little Assembly he had seen and of the persons which composed it and the Cardinall who had a soul naturally carryed unto great things and loved above all the French tongue in which he himself wrote exceeding well after he had commended the design he asked Monsieur de Boisrobert whether these Gentlemen would make a societie and assemble regularly and under publicke authoritie Monsieur de Boisrobert having answer'd that in his opinion this proposition would be received with joy he commanded him to make it and to offer to these Gentlemen his protection for their Company which he would get established by Letters Patents and his affection to each of them in particular which he would manifest upon all opportunities When these offers had been made and the question was to resolve in particular what answer they should return there was scarce any of these Gentlemen which witness'd not a displeasure and a regret that the honour which was done them would disturbe the sweetnesse and the familiarity of their conferences nay some of them and especially Monsieur de Sorisay and Monsieur de malleville were of opinion that they should excuse themselves to the Cardinal the best they could but these two besides the generall reasons that were common to them with the rest had a particular one which they had an eye to Monsieur de Serisay was Controller of the house of the Duke de la Rochefoucant and Monsieur de Malleville was Secretary to the Marshall de Bassompierre These two Lords were lookt upon as Enemies to the Cardinall The first perceiving himself in no good condition at Court had retired to his Government of Poitou and the other was already a Prisoner in the Bastille Now you know in what reputation the Cardinal then was One might think that seeing himselfe in a place so envy'd and so exposed to the plots of the Grandees there was scarse any place

a quite peculiar manner with an ingenious livelynesse Although he never printed any thing yet was he in great repute not only in France but also in forrein Countrys for the excellency of his wit the Academy of the Humor●sts at Rome sent him Letters whereby they made him one of their Academy His works were published after his death in one Volume which was received by the pub●icke with so much approbation that they were forced to make two Editions of it in six Months His Prose is more correct and exact it has a certain Air of gallantry which is not found any where else and something so naturall and so exact both together that the reading thereof is infinitely taking His Verses perhaps are no lesse curious although more neglected He many times slighted Rules but like a Master as a man that thought himself far above them and that scorned to bind himself to observe them That which is most to be commended in all his writings is that they are not Copies but Originals and that by reading the ancients and the moderns Cicero Terence Ariosto Marot and many others he made a certain new Character wherein he imitated no man and scarce any man can imitate him He had written the beginning of a Romance in prose which he called Alcidalis the subject whereof was given him by Madame the Marques of Montausieur who was then Mademoiselle de Rambouïllet Julie d'Angenes But since his death this beginning having fallen into the hands of this Lady was never seen and perhaps never shall To conclude 't was he that brought again into the fashion in our age the Rondeaux or sonnets that end as they begin which have bin quite out of use ever since Marot's time I have amongst my papers one thing which justifies what I now said T is a Letter of his which was never printed written to Monsieur de la Jonquiere Father to Monsieur de Paillerols my Cousin 'T is dated January 8. 1638. and has this Postscript I doubt whether you know what Rondeaux are I have of late made three or four of them which have put the Witts in the humor of making them 'T is a kind of writing which is proper for jeasting and raillerie I know not whether you are grown more grave now then you were when you were a Boy I for my part am alwayes in the same humor I was in when we stole the drake If then you love my follies read them but by no meanes let the Ladyes see them whose hands I kisse Rondeau Cinq ou six fois Cette nuit en dormant c. Ou vous savez tromper bien finement c. MONSIEUR SIRMOND IOHN SIRMOND was a native of Rion in Auvergne of a good familie of the Robe he was nephew to Father Sirmond the Jesuite Confessor to K. Lewis 13. and one of the most knowing men of our age He came to Court and by the favour of Cardinal de Richelieu who esteemed him one of the best writters in those daies was made Historiographer to the King with a pension of 1200. crowns He wrote divers pieces for the Cardinall on the affairs of the times but almost all of them under assumed names The Abbot of S. Germain who was the writer one the adverse part treats him extreme ill in the Tract which he called The Chimerique Embassadour He made an answer to it which is in the Collection of Monsieur du Chastelet The Abbot of S. Germain replyed and handled him yet more injuriously whereby he was obliged to write again in his own defence But Card. de Richelieu and King Lewis 13. dyed in the interim and he could never obtain under the Regency a priviledge to print this Book Hereat he was very much troubled and seeing besides that his Enemie was upon his return to Court and that favour would be no longer on his side he retired into Auvergne where he dyed being about threescore yeats Old He left a Son who as they say will print some of his works particularly his Latine verses His Prose shews that he had an excellent Genius for Eloquence his Style is strong and Mascu ine and wants no adornment The pieces which I have seen of his are these whereof the greatest pa t are in the Collect●on of Monsieur du Chastelet The Pourtraicture of the King made of the times of the Constable of Luynes The tr●ck of State of K. Lewis 13. writ in favour of Cardinall de Richelieu The Letter decifred An Advertisement to the Provinces by the Sieur de Cleonville which I have heard accounted his Master-piece L' Homme du Pape and du Roy in answer to the Count de la Rocque Spanish Embassador at Venice who had written a Book against France under the name of Zambeccari The Chimera defeated by Sulpice de Mandrini Sieur de Gazonval The Relation of the Peace of Querasque taken out of a Treatise written by Monsieur Servien He hath made also some Latin verses as I said and that Epigram against Mamurra wherein this Parasite is called Pamphagus is his I will add here by way of acknowlegment that one of his Books was one of the first things that made me relish our Language I was but newly come from Colledge when I met with I know not how many Romances and other new pieces which though I was very young and a mere child I could not endure but run back to my Tully and Terence which I found more rationall At last there came to my hands almost at the same time four Books which were The eight Orations of Tully The trick of State of Monsieur Sirmond The fourth Volume of the Letters of M. de Balzac which were wholly printed and The Memoires of Queen Margaret which I read over twice from the beginning to the end in one and the same night After that I began not onely no longer to contemn the French Language but even passionatly to love it to study it with some care and to believe as I do still even to this day that with a Genius some Time and Pains a man may render it capable of all things MONSIEUR DE COLOMBY FRANCIS DE CAVVIGNY Sieur DE COLOMBY was of Caen in Normandy a kinsman to Malherbe whose Disciple and follower he was He was also of kinne to Monsieur Morant Treasurer de l'Espargne who procured him a pension and saw it paid him He had an office at Court which never any had before or since him for he was Styled Orator to the King in affairs of State and 't was upon this account that he received 1200. crowns a year he received also other favours from the Court and was indeed proud that they were thought to be much greater then they were Towards his latter end he took upon him a religious habit but he was no Priest He dyed at the age of threescore years He was of a great stature very strong of an ambitious humor and resolute in all his actions He