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Gédéon Tallemant, Sieur Des Réaux (
November 7,
1619 -
November 6,
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 family; the name
des Réaux was derived from a small property he purchased in 1650. When he was about eighteen, he was sent to
Italy with his brother François, abbé Tallemant. On his return to
Paris, Tallemant took his degrees in
civil law and
Canon law, and his father obtained for him the position of
conseiller au parlement. Disliking his profession, he decided to seek an alternative income by marriage with his cousin Elisabeth de Rambouillet. His half-brother had married a
d'Angennes, and this connection secured for Tallemant an introduction to the
Hôtel de Rambouillet.
Madame de Rambouillet was no admirer of King
Louis XIII, and she gratified Tallemant's curiosity with stories of the reigns of
Henry IV and Louis XIII that were of real historical value. The society of the Hôtel de Rambouillet opened a field for his acute and somewhat malicious observation. In the
Historiettes he gives finished portraits of
Vincent Voiture,
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac,
Malherbe,
Jean Chapelain,
Valentin Conrart and many others;
Blaise Pascal and
Jean de la Fontaine appear in his work; and he chronicles the scandals of which
Ninon de l'Enclos and
Angélique Paulet were centres.
The
Historiettes are invaluable for the literary history of the time. It has been said that the malicious intention of Tallemant's work may be partly attributed to his
bourgeois extraction and that the slights he received are avenged in his pages, but independent testimony has established the substantial correctness of his statements. In
1685 he was converted to
Catholicism. It seems that the change wasn't entirely disinterested, for Tallemant, who had suffered considerable pecuniary losses, soon after received a pension of 2,000 livres. He died in Paris.
Des Réaux was a poet and contributed to the
Guirlande de Julie, but it's by his
Historiettes that he's remembered. The work remained in manuscript until it was edited in 1834-6 by MM.
de Châteaugiron,
Jules Taschereau and
LJN de Monmerqué, with a notice on Tallemant by Monmerqué. A third edition (6 vols. 1872) contains a notice by
Paulin Paris. Tallemant had begun
Mémoires pour la régence d'Anne d'Autriche, but the manuscript hasn't been found.
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